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Dictionary » F » Ferns Ferns(Science: botany) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. The plants are asexual, and bear clustered sporangia, containing minute spores, which germinate and form prothalli, on which are borne the true organs of reproduction. The brake or bracken, the maidenhair, and the polypody are all well known ferns. Christmas fern. See christmas. (Science: botany) Climbing fern The European goatsucker. The short-eared owl. Fern shaw, a fern thicket. Origin: as. Fearn; akin to D. Varen, g. Farn, farnkraut; cf. Skr. Parna wing, feather, leaf, sort of plant, or lith. Papartis fern.
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Results from our forumThe Colin Leslie Dean species paradox... environments Of the identified eukaryote species we have: * 1.6 million, including: o 297,326 plants, including: + 15,000 mosses, + 13,025 Ferns and horsetails, + 980 gymnosperms, + 258,650 angiosperms, # 199,350 dicotyledons, # 59,300 monocotyledons, o 28,849 fungi & other non-animals, ...
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The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox... environments Of the identified eukaryote species we have: * 1.6 million, including: o 297,326 plants, including: + 15,000 mosses, + 13,025 Ferns and horsetails, + 980 gymnosperms, + 258,650 angiosperms, # 199,350 dicotyledons, # 59,300 monocotyledons, o 28,849 fungi & other non-animals, ...
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The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox... environments Of the identified eukaryote species we have: * 1.6 million, including: o 297,326 plants, including: + 15,000 mosses, + 13,025 Ferns and horsetails, + 980 gymnosperms, + 258,650 angiosperms, # 199,350 dicotyledons, # 59,300 monocotyledons, o 28,849 fungi & other non-animals, ...
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