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Definition of fern

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Fern (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size..

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Charon :: Charon (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions..

Hellkite :: Hellkite (n.) A kite of infernal breed.

Hart-tongue :: Hart-tongue (n.) A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America..

Oophore :: Oophore (n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant..

Filicic :: Filicic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid..

Hypophyllous :: Hypophyllous (a.) Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns..

Isosporic :: Isosporic (a.) Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns and Equiseta. Cf. Heterosporic..

Caudex :: Caudex (n.) The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant..

Exannulate :: Exannulate (a.) Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.

Pecopteris :: Pecopteris (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

Myrica :: Myrica (n.) A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called..

Stipe :: Stipe (n.) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern..

Subtectacle :: Subtartarean (a.) Being or living under Tartarus; infernal.

Infernal :: Infernal (a.) Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients..

Tentwort :: Tentwort (n.) A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall..

Filical :: Filical (a.) Belonging to the Filices, r ferns..

Ferny :: Ferny (a.) Abounding in ferns.

Hellbroth :: Hellbroth (n.) A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation.

Acheron :: Acheron (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf..

Ginkgo :: Ginkgo (n.) A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree..