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Definition: Fern Seed |
Fern SeedNoun1. The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Fern Seed We have the receipt of fern seed, we walk invisible (1 Henry IV., act iv. 4). The seed of certain species of fern is so small as to be invisible to the naked eye, and hence the plant was believed to confer invisibility on those who carried it about their person. It was at one time believed that plants have the power of imparting their own speciality to their wearer. Thus, the herb-dragon was said to cure the poison of serpents, the yellow celandine the jaundice; wood-sorrel, which has a heart-shaped leaf, to cheer the heart; liverwort to be good for the liver, and so on. "Why did you think that you had Gyges' ring, Or the herb that gives invisibility?" Beaumont and Fletcher: Fair Maid of the Inn, i. 1. "The seeds of fern, which, by prolific heat Cheered and unfolded, form a plant so great, Are less a thousand times than what the eye Can unassisted by the tube descry." Blackmore: Creation. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Fern Seed |
| English words defined with "fern seed": division Tracheophyta ♦ Fernticle ♦ Tracheophyta. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Fairy Fern Seed (1915) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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fern seed | 4 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enserfed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-f-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: defense, feeders, fenders, needers, refeeds, sneered. | |
-2 letters: defers, denser, enders, enserf, feeder, fender, needer, reefed, refeed, reseed, reseen, resend, seeder, sender, serene. | |
-3 letters: deers, defer, denes, dense, drees, ender, ernes, feeds, fends, feres, ferns, freed, frees, needs, nerds, redes, reeds, reefs, refed, rends, resee, seder, sered, sneer. | |
-4 letters: deer, dees, dene, dens, dere, dree. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-f-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: defenders, deferents, freshened, redefines. | |
+2 letters: deferences, deferments, fenderless, predefines, refastened, underfeeds. | |
+3 letters: differences, fenestrated, referendums, refreshened. | |
+4 letters: confederates, defenestrate, deforcements, fervidnesses, reidentifies. | |
+5 letters: barefacedness, confederacies, defenestrated, defenestrates, defervescence, differentness, foreshortened, indifferences, nonesterified, retransferred, schadenfreude, superinfected. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 72 6E 53 65 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01110010 01101110 00100000 01010011 01100101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e r n   S e e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0072 006E 0053 0065 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40718480253717170 |
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