As nouns the difference between fern and sporophyll
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 sporophyll is the equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia.
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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sporophyll
English
Noun
(
en noun)
(botany) The equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia
