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Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.
A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.
Alt. of Stag-horn fern
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.
See under Stag.
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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 freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.
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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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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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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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Abounding in ferns.
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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 place for rearing 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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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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Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].
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An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
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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 stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
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A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.
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