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Hardfern :: Hardfern (n.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America..

Polypodium :: Polypodium (n.) A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species..

Oophore :: Oophore (n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant..

Pteridology :: Pteridology (n.) That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Filicoid :: Filicoid (n.) A fernlike plant.

Lunary :: Lunary (n.) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.

Barometz :: Barometz (n.) The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb..

Tentwort :: Tentwort (n.) A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall..

Sorus :: Sorus (n.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns..

Pteridomania :: Pteridomania (n.) A madness, craze, or strong fancy, for ferns..

Pecopteris :: Pecopteris (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

Acherontic :: Acherontic (a.) Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund..

Adder's-tongue :: Adder's-tongue (n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue..

Mulewort :: Mulewort (n.) A fern of the genus Hemionitis.

Fernticle :: Fernticle (n.) A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern..

Prothallus :: Prothallus (n.) The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc..

Female Fern :: Female fern () a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern..

Maidenhair :: Maidenhair (n.) A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair..

Hellish :: Hellish (a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.

Trichome :: Trichome (n.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes..

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