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Farn

Definitions of Farn
  1. noun
    any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
    synonyms: Farngewächs
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    types:
    Wasserfarngewächs
    ferns that grow in water
    Tüpfelfarn
    any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium
    Baumfarn
    any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds; found especially in Australia and New Zealand; chiefly of the families Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from Polypodiaceae
    Adlerfarn
    large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
    Eichenfarn
    bright blue-green fern widely distributed especially in damp acid woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere
    Frauenhaarfarn
    any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
    Kleefarn
    any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets
    Pillenfarn, Pillenkraut
    European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps
    Goldenes Frauenhaar, Haarmützenmoos
    mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
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