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A fern is a green plant whose leaves look like large feathers, but it has no flowers. The leaves are often finely cut, and they from a tight curl as they grow. Ferns like damp, shady places — forest floors, wet walls, the sides of streams. They do not make seeds the way a flower does; they make a fine dust called . There are tiny ferns and tree-sized ones, but the picture in most learners' minds is that green plant on a woodland path. The word is ordinary and concrete; people also use Fern as a name, once given to someone who lived where these plants grew .
蕨類
組成This word does not split in English. It comes from Old English fearn, and further back from an old word that also meant a feather or a wing — people have long seen the leaves as feather-shaped.
同家族的字
- fernythe adjective: like ferns, or covered with them
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Fernname/fɜːn/
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A female given name.
- "Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard," said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl.
- Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Rachel Fern Harris.
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A topographic surname.
fernnoun/fɜːn/
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Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
- Beyond here the tides are not felt, and we now entered upon a district of elevated forest, with a finer vegetation. Large trees stretch out their arms across the stream, and the steep, earthy banks are clothed with ferns and zingiberaceous plants.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。