NOUN | plant | fern seed | the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust |
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Meaning | The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible. | |
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Part of | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
Broader | spore | A 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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