ferns

noun

Meaning

Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

braky(English)class filicinae(English)class filicopsida(English)eusporangiate(English)fiddlehead(English)filicinae(English)filicopsida(English)homosporous(English)

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