FERN (from O. Eng. fearn, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch varen, and Ger. Farn; the Indo-European root, seen in the Sanskrit parna, a feather, shows the primary meaning; cf. Gr. rmep6 , feather, rTepis, fern)

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FERN (from O. Eng. fearn, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch varen, and Ger. Farn; the Indo-European root, seen in the Sanskrit parna, a feather, shows the primary meaning; cf. Gr. rmep6 , feather, rTepis, fern) , a name often used to denote the whole botanical class of Pteridophytes, including both the true ferns, Filicales, by far the largest

group

GROUP

of this class in the existing

flora

FLORA

, and the

fern

FERN (from O. Eng. fearn, a word
common
- COMMON
to
Teutonic
- TEUTONIC
- TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
languages, cf. Dutch varen, and Ger. Farn; the Indo-European
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
, seen in the
Sanskrit
- SANSKRIT
parna, a
feather
- FEATHER (0. Eng. (ether, Ger. Feder, from an Indo-European root seen also in Gr. lrrepov, and aEreo-Oat, to fly)
, shows the primary meaning; cf. Gr. rmep6 ,
feather
- FEATHER (0. Eng. (ether, Ger. Feder, from an Indo-European root seen also in Gr. lrrepov, and aEreo-Oat, to fly)
, rTepis, fern)

-like

plants

PLANTS

, Equisetales, Sphenophyllales, Lycopodiales (see

PTERIDOPHYTA

PTERIDOPHYTA (Gr. 1ripts, fern, and d,vrde plant)

).

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