FERN SEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fern seed mean? 

• FERN SEED (noun)
  The noun FERN SEED has 1 sense:

1. the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible

  Familiarity information: FERN SEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERN SEED (noun)

Meaning:

The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fern seed" is a kind of...):

spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)

Holonyms ("fern seed" is a part of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)