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1Fern bar — is an American slang term for an upscale or preppy (or yuppie) bar or tavern catering to singles usually decorated with ferns or other fussy plants, as well as such decor as fake Tiffany lamps. The phrase came into common use in the late 1970s or …
2fern — [fə:n US fə:rn] n [: Old English; Origin: fearn] a type of plant with green leaves shaped like large feathers, but no flowers >ferny adj …
3fern — [ fɜrn ] noun count a plant with leaves shaped like feathers and no flowers …
4fern — fernless, adj. fernlike, adj. /ferrn/, n. any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a… …
5Fern — /ferrn/, n. a female given name. * * * Any of about 10,000–12,000 species (division Filicophyta) of nonflowering vascular plants that have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and reproduce by spores. Though ferns were once classified with the… …
6Fern — This article is about the group of pteridophyte plants. For other uses, see Fern (disambiguation). Ferns (Pteridophyta) Temporal range: Mid Devonian[1] Recent …
7fern — UK [fɜː(r)n] / US [fɜrn] noun [countable] Word forms fern : singular fern plural ferns a plant with leaves shaped like feathers and no flowers …
8fern — [fɜːn] noun [C] a plant with no flowers and leaves that are shaped like feathers …
9sword fern — noun any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed • Hypernyms: ↑fern • Hyponyms: ↑Boston fern, ↑Nephrolepis exaltata, ↑Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis, ↑basket fern,… …
10shield fern — noun any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield shaped coverings on the sori • Syn: ↑buckler fern • Hypernyms: ↑fern • Hyponyms: ↑broad buckler fern, ↑Dryopteris dilatata, ↑ …
