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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fern /fɜrn/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. ferns or fern. - Plant Biologya nonflowering plant having fronds and reproducing by spores.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fern (fûrn),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologyany seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a branching vein system, and reproduction by spores contained in sporangia that appear as brown dots on the underside of the fronds.
- bef. 900; Middle English ferne, Old English fearn; cognate with German Farn fern, Sanskrit parná feather
- a female given name.
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