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Fern vs Gern - What's the difference?

fern | gern |

As a proper noun fern

is (female) from the fern plant.

As a verb gern is

(obsolete) to grin.

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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    gern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To grin.
  • (obsolete) To yawn.
  • * Spenser
  • [He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern .
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