Fern

Noun

 * 1) Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta (formerly known by some as Filicophyta) that lacks seeds and reproduces by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

Derived terms

 * ferny
 * male fern

Adjectives for Fern
discolored; luxuriant; water-loving; minute; exquisite; metallic; lacelike; sprouting.

Thesaurus
Calamites, Cycadofilicales, Filicales, Selaginellaceae, Sigillaria, algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, calamite, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, cycadofilicales, diatom, equisetum, filicoids, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, lepidodendrids, lepidodendroids, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack

Etymology
From fearn:, from  (cf. Dutch varen:, German Farn:), from  'wing, feather' (cf. Lithuanian sparnas:, Albanian fier: 'fern', Avestan parɘna:, Sanskrit undefined:), from *per- 'feather' (cf. Tocharian B parwa:, Old Church Slavonic undefined:).

Translations

 * : سرخس
 * Basque:
 * Catalan:
 * Valencian:
 * Croatian: paprat
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: filiko
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: φτέρη
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Japanese:


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: paparde
 * Lithuanian: papartis
 * Manx: rhennagh
 * Old English:
 * Persian: سرخس
 * Polish: paproć
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Simplified Chinese: ,
 * Slovene: praprot
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tranditional Chinese: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: filig
 * Welsh: rhedynen
 * Volapük: filig
 * Welsh: rhedynen

Anagrams

 * nerf

Etymology
From ferrana:.

Adjective
fern


 * 1) far away

Derived terms

 * fern liegen
 * Ferne
 * Fernsehen
 * Fernsicht
 * Fernverkehr
 * Fernweh
 * Fernzug

Etymology
From the stem fer-:. Compare tvennur:, þrennur:.

Adjective
fern


 * 1) four (used when counting singular nouns, pluralia tantum or groupings (especially pairs) of items, or when the item counted is missing from the sentence or separated by the preposition af (“of”))
 * fernir skór – four pairs of shoes
 * fernir tónleikar – four concerts (tónleikar is plurale tantum)
 * Þetta má gera á fernan hátt. – This can be done in four ways. (háttur cannot be used in its plural form in this sense)
 * Það er fernt sem mig vantar. – There are four [things] that I need. (noun omitted)
 * Ég vil fá fernt af öllu. – I want four of everything.

Derived terms

 * ferna

Related terms

 * fer-
 * fjórir
 * tvennur
 * þrennur