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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Ferns, Ireland, Diocese of
• Aedan of Ferns, Saint
Webster Dictionary
• Stag-Horn Fern
• Sea Fern
• Hare's-Foot Fern
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Climbing Fern
• Fern
• Filmy Ferns
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Ferne, Henry, D.D.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Antonio Fernández
• Diego Fernández de Palencia
• Domingo Fernández Navarrete
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(from O. Eng. fears, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch varen, and Ger. Farn; the Indo-European root, seen in the Sanskrit parna, a feather, shows the primary meaning; cf. Gr. 7rrepOv, feather, 7rrepis, fern), a name often used to denote the whole botanical class of Pteridophytes, including both the true ferns, Filicales, by far the largest group of this class in the existing flora, and the fern-like plants,. Equisetales, Sphenophyllales, Lycopodiales (see Pteridophyta).