fern seed

fern seed

n.

The dustlike spores of ferns, formerly believed to be seeds and once thought to have the power of making their possessor invisible.

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fern seed

n

the minute particles by which ferns reproduce themselves, formerly thought to be invisible. Possession of them was thought to make a person invisible

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

fern seed - the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores 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; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"