noun🔗ShareFarneAny 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."The forest floor was covered in lush green ferns. "Der Waldboden war mit üppigen, grünen Farnen bedeckt.plantbiologynatureorganismenvironmentscienceecologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading