fern

«fern» in Mova's school dictionary: a green plant with no flowers and long feathery leaves… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a fern, ferns)

meaning for a pupil

1) A fern is a green plant with no flowers and long feathery leaves called fronds. tree →

2) Ferns make new plants from tiny spores, not seeds; the spores grow in brown dots under the fronds. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on plant groups, ferns are an old group of plants that lived before the dinosaurs; giant tree ferns made coal. They like damp, shady places like woods and rainforests. Young fronds unroll from a curl called a fiddlehead. In New Zealand, the silver fern is a national symbol on sports shirts. Phrases: «tree fern», «fern fronds», «silver fern», «fern spores».

examples

• Ferns grow in the shady part of the wood. tree →
• A fern has no flowers and no seeds. tree →
• The brown dots under the leaf are spores. tree →
• Dinosaurs walked among giant ferns. tree →
• The All Blacks have a silver fern on their shirts. tree →
• A baby fern frond is curled up like a snail shell. tree →
• She did not seem at all inclined to part with the fern stems. tree →

note

Plural «ferns». Ferns are not mosses; mosses are smaller and have no real roots. Myth: ferns do not flower at midsummer — that is an old legend.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fern» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.