Synonyms for fern

Grammar : Noun

Spell : furn

Phonetic Transcription : fɜrn

Top 10 synonyms for fern

Other synonyms for the word fern

Définition of fern

Origin : Old English fearn, from Proto-Germanic *farno- (cf. Old Saxon farn, Middle Dutch vaern, Dutch varen, Old High German farn, German Farn), possibly with a sense of "having feathery fronds" and from PIE *por-no-, a root which has yielded words for "feather, wing" (cf. Sanskrit parnam "feather;" Lithuanian papartis "fern;" Russian paporot'; Greek pteris "fern," pteron "feather"), from root *per- (see petition (n.)). The plant's ability to appear as if from nothing accounts for the ancient belief that fern seeds conferred invisibility.

As in brush : noun scrappy bushes
As in shrub : noun bush

Example sentences :

At times they lost the trail, as it was overgrown with fern and berry bush.
Extract from : « Indian Legends of Vancouver Island » by Alfred Carmichael

She crushed the fern into a rough ball and threw it over the edge of the rock.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

Don't you remember, I thought I heard a rustling in the fern, and you laughed at me?
Extract from : « The Green Satin Gown » by Laura E. Richards

The stuffing is of fern, feathers, mounga, and sundry other matters.
Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay

Everything had to be interviewed, from teaspoons to pots of fern.
Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael

There are deep gulches here, full of trees and moss and fern.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 » by Various

Grey cliffs appeared; fern and laurel growing in the clefts.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

She and Pop—Fern and Sally, too, and their boy-friends—are on the list.
Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith

Why the notches of a fern leaf or the stamen of a water lily?
Extract from : « The Wedding Ring » by T. De Witt Talmage

Scrambling up, I promptly let go two or three shots into the fern brake.
Extract from : « Lords of the North » by A. C. Laut

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