Definitions for fernfɜrn

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

fernfɜrn(n.)

a nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, having fronds and reproducing by spores.
Category: Plants

Origin of fern:

bef. 900; ME ferne, OE fearn; c. MD væren, OHG farn fern, Skt parná feather

fern′y(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

fern(noun)
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

fern(noun)ɜrn
a common plant without flowers

Wiktionary

fern(Noun)
Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta (formerly known by some as Filicophyta) that lacks seeds and reproduces by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
Fern(ProperNoun)
from the fern plant.

Origin: From fearn, from farnan (cf. Dutch varen, German Farn), from pornóm 'wing, feather' (cf. Lithuanian sparnas, Albanian fier 'fern', Avestan parəna, Sanskrit ), from *per- 'feather' (cf. Tocharian B parwa, Old Church Slavonic ).

Webster Dictionary

Fern(adverb)
long ago
Fern(adj)
ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints]
Fern(noun)
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