How do you use the word "fern" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "fern" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "fern": Pareiasaurs crashed through vast conifer and fern forests. Fernão Lopes was a Portuguese historian.

Fern Meaning

/fɜːn/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAny 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.

nameA female given name.

Sentence Examples

Pareiasaurs crashed through vast conifer and fern forests.

Fernão Lopes was a Portuguese historian.

CEFR Practice Quiz

A tall green ____ grew beside the damp, shaded creek in the forest.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

A delicate ____ grew in the shady corner of the garden, where the soil remained moist and cool all day.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English fern, from Old English fearn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn, from Proto-Indo-European *pornóm (“feather, wing; fern, leaf”), from *p(t)erH- (“fern”). Cognate with Scots fairn (“fern”), West Frisian fear (“fern”), Dutch varen (“fern”), German Farn, Farm (“fern”), Luxembourgish Far (“fern”), Lithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀 (par^əna), Ashkun pār (“leaf”), Kamkata-viri por, přor, Prasuni parëg (“leaf”), Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá, “wing”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Beyond here the tides are not felt, and we now entered upon a district of elevated forest, with a finer vegetation. Large trees stretch out their arms across the stream, and the steep, earthy banks are clothed with ferns and zingiberaceous plants." — 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 103:

""Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard," said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl." — 1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web:

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