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Fern vs Wern - What's the difference?

fern | wern |

As a noun 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.

As a proper noun Fern

is {{given name|female}} from the fern plant.

As a verb wern is

to refuse.

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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    wern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To refuse.
    • He is too great a niggard that will wern / A man to light a candle at his lantern. — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)