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How to use the word Ferns in a Sentence?

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Modern poinsettias are not your grandmother’s plants. Breeding has dramatically improved their consumer performance, back in the day, growers would place ferns or pine boughs in the pot along with the poinsettia to provide greenery, because the poinsettia leaves would fall off so quickly. Today’s poinsettias will last well into January if watered properly and provided enough sunlight.

Jim Faust

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The lack of horsetails, and rarity of cycads and conifers is surprising, given that these are very common in the surrounding flora, even within ferns, it looks like Borealopelta may have had a preference for certain types of ferns, while ignoring others.

Caleb Marshall Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We could see the different layers of cells in a leaf fragment including the epidermis with the pores, called stomata, through which plants take in carbon dioxide, we could also see the surface patterning of the epidermis cells, which was like a jigsaw pattern that we see on many living ferns.

David Greenwood

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The discovery of charcoal together with a fern-filled stomach opens a window into the biology of this large herbivorous armoured dinosaur as it suggested Borealopelta was likely a keystone herbivore that shaped the landscape by its grazing, and that it also grazed on the ferns growing in open areas created by wildfires, that is so cool.

David Greenwood

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When that episode of' Between Two Ferns' came out, it was a huge game changer on both sides. We realized we could be doing this kind of stuff all the time, we could be working with nonprofits, foundations, political campaigns, institutions... and the best comedy writers in the country.

Brad Jenkins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When you start seeing ferns go brown overnight, it's like, 'Wow, I gotta get out of here,'.

Ron Peters

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Instead of just feeding on mushy ferns or low-growing horsetails, it means they might have been much more important in munching tough plants like conifers or cycads, which suggests they may have been feeding on quite different things, maybe living in different environments from time to time, and even potentially acting as vectors for moving seeds and fruits around for those different types of plants.

Paul Barrett

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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