HyperDic: fern_seed

English > 1 sense of the expression fern seed:
NOUNplantfern seedthe asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust
English > fern seed: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningThe asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible.
Part offernAny of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward
BroadersporeA small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion

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