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Ferns

LC control no.sh 85047836
LC classificationQK520 QK532 Botany
SB429 Culture
Topical headingFerns
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Variant(s)Fern
Filicineae
Filicophyta
Filicopsida
Polypodiophyta
Pterophyta
See alsoPteridophyta
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Found inITIS, Jan. 23, 2002 (Scientific name: Pterophyta. Vernacular name: ferns)
Lawrence, E. Henderson's dict. of biol. terms, 2000 (fern: common name for a member of the Pterophyta; Pterophyta: one of the four major divisions of the spore-bearing vascular plants, commonly called the ferns)
Academic Press dict. of sci. and tech., via WWW, Jan. 23, 2002 (fern: The common name for a seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicineae; Filicophyta: the ferns; Filicopsida: the largest of three subdivisions of the division Filicophyta; Filicineae: a class of the Pteridophyta; plants that reproduce by spores and are characterized by fronds and true vascular systems)
The Wordsworth dict. of sci. & tech., 1995 (ferns (Bot.). Pteridophytes of the class Filicopsida)
McGraw-Hill dict. of sci. tech. terms, c1989 (fern (BOT) Any of a large number of vascular plants composing the division Polypodiophyta)
Encarta world Eng. dict. (fern: n. pl. ferns or fern)