fern seed

fern seed

n. The dustlike spores of ferns, formerly believed to be seeds and once thought to have the power of making their possessor invisible.

fern seed

n the minute particles by which ferns reproduce themselves, formerly thought to be invisible. Possession of them was thought to make a person invisible

fern′ seed`

n. the spores of ferns, formerly supposed to have the power to make persons invisible.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.fern seed - the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisiblefern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesspore - a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"