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Synonyms for fern

Grammar : Noun
Spell : furn
Phonetic Transcription : fÉœrn

Top 10 synonyms for fern
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Définition of fern

Origin :
  • Old English fearn, from Proto-Germanic *farno- (cf. Old Saxon farn, Middle Dutch vaern, Dutch varen, Old High German farn, German Farn), possibly with a sense of "having feathery fronds" and from PIE *por-no-, a root which has yielded words for "feather, wing" (cf. Sanskrit parnam "feather;" Lithuanian papartis "fern;" Russian paporot'; Greek pteris "fern," pteron "feather"), from root *per- (see petition (n.)). The plant's ability to appear as if from nothing accounts for the ancient belief that fern seeds conferred invisibility.
  • As in brush : noun scrappy bushes
  • As in shrub : noun bush
Example sentences :
  • At times they lost the trail, as it was overgrown with fern and berry bush.
  • Extract from : « Indian Legends of Vancouver Island » by Alfred Carmichael
  • She crushed the fern into a rough ball and threw it over the edge of the rock.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Don't you remember, I thought I heard a rustling in the fern, and you laughed at me?
  • Extract from : « The Green Satin Gown » by Laura E. Richards
  • The stuffing is of fern, feathers, mounga, and sundry other matters.
  • Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
  • Everything had to be interviewed, from teaspoons to pots of fern.
  • Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
  • There are deep gulches here, full of trees and moss and fern.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 » by Various
  • Grey cliffs appeared; fern and laurel growing in the clefts.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • She and Pop—Fern and Sally, too, and their boy-friends—are on the list.
  • Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • Why the notches of a fern leaf or the stamen of a water lily?
  • Extract from : « The Wedding Ring » by T. De Witt Talmage
  • Scrambling up, I promptly let go two or three shots into the fern brake.
  • Extract from : « Lords of the North » by A. C. Laut
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