Definitions for Fern

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Fern fern

Spelling: [furn]

IPA: /fɜrn/

Fern is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Fern (efnr).

Definitions for Fern

noun

1. 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 branching vein system, and reproduction by spores contained in sporangia that appear as brown dots on the underside of the fronds.
2. a female given name.

Origin of Fern

before 900; Middle English ferne, Old English fearn; cognate with German Farn fern, Sanskrit parná feather

Examples for Fern

She crushed the fern into a rough ball and threw it over the edge of the rock.

The stuffing is of fern, feathers, mounga, and sundry other matters.

Mizrahi and Rowland will also serve as judges alongside fashion luminary and Senior Vice President of IMG Fashion, fern Mallis.

At times they lost the trail, as it was overgrown with fern and berry bush.

Grey cliffs appeared; fern and laurel growing in the clefts.

Don't you remember, I thought I heard a rustling in the fern, and you laughed at me?

She has received the fern Holland Award from the Vital Voices Global Partnership for giving a voice to female victims.

There are deep gulches here, full of trees and moss and fern.

She and Pop—fern and Sally, too, and their boy-friends—are on the list.

Everything had to be interviewed, from teaspoons to pots of fern.