Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fern_seed

1 sense of fern seed

Sense 1
fern seed -- (the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible)
       => 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")