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Alt. of Stag-horn fern
See under Stag.
A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.
Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.
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The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
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Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].
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Abounding in ferns.
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A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.
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That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
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A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.
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A place for rearing ferns.
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A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.
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The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium.
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Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.
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A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.
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A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.
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Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.
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Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.
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An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
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