Fern is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FERN in dictionary:

VERB:
• Long ago.
NOUN:
• a flowerless vascular plant
• a flowerless plant which has feathery or leafy fronds and reproduces by spores released from the undersides of the fronds. Ferns have a vascular system for the transport of water and nutrients.
• flowerless plant with fine fronds
• An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
• any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
ADJECTIVE:
• Ancient; old. [Obs.] \"Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes.\" [saints].

Words related to FERN

fernier10 ferniest11 fernless11 fernlike15 ferns8 ferny11

How to use FERN in a sentence

• The clumps of fern and grass stood out yellow and staring against the inky background of the trees.
• We cut open the baskets, some of which were full of roasted flesh, and others of fern root, which serves them for bread.
• A rare and beautiful fern growing on rocks preferring limestone and confined mostly to the southern states.
• The alternation of generations, which is perhaps most clear and typical in the case of the fern, becomes less distinctly marked in the plants of higher organization and type.
• Some money had rolled from the pocket and lay shining amongst the fern.
• Fern leaves will look almost as well ten years after they are gathered as on the day on which they are transferred from the dewy hillside to the dry pages of a book.
• She was lying on a bed of fern in a narrow, dark ravine.
• Serve in glasses or orange shells placed on autumn leaves or sprays of green fern.
• In thirty steps I was clear of the fern, charging slap into a group of people who were giving brandy to the sentry, whom I had passed but a little while before.
• But the Waikato country was flat or undulating, clothed in fern and with only patches of forest.
• VI THE GRATEFUL FOXES One fine spring day two friends went out to a moor to gather fern, attended by a boy with a bottle of wine and a box of provisions.
• A few steps more, and a figure rose from out the fern thicket.
• This fern is of that kind which bears its seed vessels in lines on the edge of the leaves.
• Also I had fetched fern in handfuls and strewn the floor of the hut, which was now dry and clean to the smell.

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