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Fern vs Woodfern - What's the difference?

fern | woodfern |

As a proper noun fern

is (female) from the fern plant.

As a noun woodfern is

any of several evergreen ferns, of the genus dryopteris , that have dark green, leathery fronds.

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

    * ----

    woodfern

    English

    (wikipedia woodfern) (Dryopteris)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several evergreen ferns, of the genus Dryopteris , that have dark green, leathery fronds.