- common fern
- Fern
- Large common fern
- A brake or fern.
- Fern seed
- Reproductive body
- Type of seed
- One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are
analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
- An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of
flowering plants.
- A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed
in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism;
as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.
- One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See
Spore formation, belw.
- Fern leaf
- In Dusseldorf, Ron discovered palm leaf
- The organ formed by the combination or union into one body
of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond
of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm
tree.