As nouns the difference between fern and aetheogam
is that fern is any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations while aetheogam is a cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.
As a proper noun Fern
is {{given name|female}} from the fern plant.
fern
English
Noun
(
en noun)
Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
Synonyms
* (Pteridophyta) (archaic)
Derived terms
* (hydrozoan skeletons)
* (in genus Asparagus )
* )
* ferny
* male fern
* (in genus Comptonia )
* tree fern
See also
* bracken
Anagrams
*
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aetheogam
English
Alternative forms
*
Noun
(
en noun)
(botany) A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia , having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.
Usage notes
* Being derived from the two vowels ) being optional; the spellings *''ætheogam'' and *''etheogam are, therefore, erroneous.
Derived terms
* aetheogamous (botany)
Synonyms
* cryptogam
References
