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nounany of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporestype of:
Synonyms & Similar Words
brake bracken fiddlehead pteridophyte nonflowering plant adder's tongue fern aglaomorpha meyeniana anemia adiantifolia annual fern anogramma leptophylla aquatic fern asplenium ceterach asplenium nidus asplenium nigripes asplenium scolopendrium athyrium filix-femina athyrium pycnocarpon athyrium thelypteroides bamboo fern basket fern bead fern bear's-paw fern beech fern bird's nest fern bladder fern boulder fern bristle fern buckler fern button fern canker brake ceterach officinarum chain fern cheilanthes gracillima christella christmas fern cliff-brake cliff brake climbing bird's nest fern climbing fern coniogramme japonica crape fern crepe fern culcita dubia curly grass curly grass fern cyclophorus lingua cyrtomium aculeatum dagger fern davallia dennstaedtia punctilobula deparia acrostichoides diplazium pycnocarpon diplopterygium longissimum doodia doryopteris pedata drynaria rigidula dryopteris noveboracensis dryopteris oreopteris dryopteris thelypteris evergreen wood fern false bracken fan fern felt fern woodsia adder's tongue water fern wood-fern wood fern woodfern acrostichum aureum film fern filmy fern flowering fern giant scrambling fern glade fern gleichenia flabellata gold fern golden fern golden polypody grape fern grass fern gymnocarpium dryopteris gymnocarpium robertianum hand fern hard fern hart's-tongue hart's-tongue fern hay-scented hay-scented fern helminthostachys zeylanica holly fern indian button fern jersey fern king fern lace fern lady fern leather fern leatherleaf fern lecanopteris leptopteris superba limestone fern lip fern lipfern maidenhair maidenhair fern marattia salicina marsh fern massachusetts fern matteuccia struthiopteris microgramma-piloselloides microsorium punctatum mohria caffrorum mountain fern narrow-leaved spleenwort new york fern northern oak fern oak fern oleander fern oleandra mollis oleandra neriiformis olfersia cervina onoclea sensibilis onoclea struthiopteris oreopteris limbosperma osmund ostrich fern parathelypteris novae-boracensis parathelypteris simulata pasture brake pecopteris pellaea rotundifolia phlebodium aureum phyllitis scolopendrium pine fern pityrogramma argentea pityrogramma calomelanos pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava pityrogramma chrysophylla polybotria cervina polybotrya cervina polypodium aureum polypody polystichum acrostichoides polystichum aculeatum polystichum adiantiformis potato fern prince-of-wales feather prince-of-wales fern prince-of-wales plume pteretis struthiopteris pteridium aquilinum pteridium esculentum pteris cretica pteris multifida pteris serrulata pyrrosia lingua rabbit's-foot fern rasp fern ribbon fern rock brake rumohra adiantiformis scale fern scaly fern scented fern schaffneria nigripes schizaea pusilla scolopendrium scolopendrium nigripes sensitive fern serpent fern shield fern shuttlecock fern silver fern silvery spleenwort snake polypody solanopteris bifrons spider brake spider fern spleenwort staghorn fern sticherus flabellatus strap fern sword fern tectaria cicutaria tectaria macrodonta ten-day fern thelypteris dryopteris thelypteris palustris thelypteris simulata todea barbara todea superba tongue fern tree fern umbrella fern vittaria lineata ferny