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Fern vs Spleenwort - What's the difference?

fern | spleenwort |

As nouns the difference between fern and spleenwort

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 spleenwort is any of a number of types of ferns in the genus Asplenium.

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

    External links

    * ("fern" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    spleenwort

    English

    (wikipedia spleenwort) (Asplenum)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of a number of types of ferns in the genus Asplenium .

    • Anagrams

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