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FERN SEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible
Classified under:
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)
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