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Fern

/fˈɜrn/
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(noun) Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

Pareiasaurs crashed through vast conifer and fern forests.
Fernão Lopes was a Portuguese historian.
CEFR Practice Quiz
A delicate ____ grew in the shady corner of the garden, where the soil remained moist and cool all day.

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