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Fern vs Spermatozoid - What's the difference?

fern | spermatozoid |

As a proper noun fern

is (female) from the fern plant.

As a noun spermatozoid is

(biology) a motile, ciliated male gamete produced in the antheridium of an alga, fern or gymnosperm.

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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    spermatozoid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) A motile, ciliated male gamete produced in the antheridium of an alga, fern or gymnosperm.