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

• acrostichum aureum
• golden fern
• leather fern
• adder's tongue
• adder's tongue fern
• aglaomorpha meyeniana
• bear's-paw fern
• anemia adiantifolia
• pine fern
• annual fern
• anogramma leptophylla
• jersey fern
• aquatic fern
• water fern
• asplenium ceterach
• ceterach officinarum
• scale fern
• scaly fern
• asplenium nidus
• bird's nest fern
• asplenium nigripes
• schaffneria nigripes
• scolopendrium nigripes
• asplenium scolopendrium
• hart's-tongue
• hart's-tongue fern
• phyllitis scolopendrium
• athyrium filix-femina
• lady fern
• athyrium pycnocarpon
• diplazium pycnocarpon
• glade fern
• narrow-leaved spleenwort
• silvery spleenwort
• athyrium thelypteroides
• deparia acrostichoides
• silvery spleenwort
• bamboo fern
• coniogramme japonica
• basket fern
• drynaria rigidula
• bead fern
• onoclea sensibilis
• sensitive fern
• beech fern
• bladder fern
• boulder fern
• dennstaedtia punctilobula
• hay-scented
• hay-scented fern
• scented fern
• bracken
• brake
• pasture brake
• pteridium aquilinum
• bracken
• pteridium esculentum
• brake
• bristle fern
• filmy fern
• buckler fern
• shield fern
• button fern
• tectaria cicutaria
• button fern
• pellaea rotundifolia
• canker brake
• christmas fern
• dagger fern
• evergreen wood fern
• polystichum acrostichoides
• chain fern
• cheilanthes gracillima
• lace fern
• christella
• cliff brake
• cliff-brake
• rock brake
• climbing bird's nest fern
• microsorium punctatum
• climbing fern
• crape fern
• leptopteris superba
• prince-of-wales feather
• prince-of-wales fern
• prince-of-wales plume
• todea superba
• crepe fern
• king fern
• todea barbara
• culcita dubia
• false bracken
• curly grass
• curly grass fern
• schizaea pusilla
• cyclophorus lingua
• felt fern
• pyrrosia lingua
• tongue fern
• cyrtomium aculeatum
• holly fern
• polystichum aculeatum
• davallia
• diplopterygium longissimum
• giant scrambling fern
• doodia
• rasp fern
• doryopteris pedata
• hand fern
• dryopteris noveboracensis
• new york fern
• parathelypteris novae-boracensis
• dryopteris oreopteris
• mountain fern
• oreopteris limbosperma
• dryopteris thelypteris
• marsh fern
• thelypteris palustris
• fan fern
• gleichenia flabellata
• sticherus flabellatus
• umbrella fern
• fiddlehead
• matteuccia struthiopteris
• onoclea struthiopteris
• ostrich fern
• pteretis struthiopteris
• shuttlecock fern
• film fern
• filmy fern
• flowering fern
• osmund
• flowering fern
• helminthostachys zeylanica
• gold fern
• pityrogramma chrysophylla
• golden fern
• pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava
• golden polypody
• phlebodium aureum
• polypodium aureum
• rabbit's-foot fern
• serpent fern
• grape fern
• grass fern
• ribbon fern
• vittaria lineata
• gymnocarpium dryopteris
• oak fern
• thelypteris dryopteris
• gymnocarpium robertianum
• limestone fern
• northern oak fern
• hard fern
• hart's-tongue
• hart's-tongue fern
• olfersia cervina
• polybotria cervina
• polybotrya cervina
• holly fern
• indian button fern
• tectaria macrodonta
• leather fern
• leatherleaf fern
• polystichum adiantiformis
• rumohra adiantiformis
• ten-day fern
• lecanopteris
• lip fern
• lipfern
• maidenhair
• maidenhair fern
• marattia salicina
• potato fern
• massachusetts fern
• parathelypteris simulata
• thelypteris simulata
• microgramma-piloselloides
• snake polypody
• mohria caffrorum
• scented fern
• oleander fern
• oleandra mollis
• oleandra neriiformis
• pecopteris
• pityrogramma argentea
• silver fern
• pityrogramma calomelanos
• silver fern
• polypody
• potato fern
• solanopteris bifrons
• pteris cretica
• pteris multifida
• spider brake
• spider fern
• pteris serrulata
• ribbon fern
• spider fern
• rock brake
• scolopendrium
• spleenwort
• staghorn fern
• strap fern
• sword fern
• tree fern
• wood fern
• wood-fern
• woodfern
• woodsia

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

• class filicinae
• class filicopsida
• filicinae
• filicopsida

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

• nonflowering plant
• pteridophyte

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

• ferned
• ferny
• fernlike
• ferny