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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD FERN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARD FERN

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Hard fern is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HARD FERN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hard fern

Blechnum

Blechnum is a genus of between 150–220 species of ferns with a cosmopolitan distribution, in the family Blechnaceae in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales. By far the greatest species diversity is in tropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere, with only a few species reaching cool temperate latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere. Most are herbaceous plants, but a few species are tree ferns with stems up to 3 m tall. Blechnum varies from most ferns in having a separation of sterile and fertile fronds in the same plant.

Definition of hard fern in the English dictionary

The definition of hard fern in the dictionary is a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed US name: deer fern.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD FERN

asparagus fern
beech fern
black tree fern
Boston fern
coral fern
deer fern
fern
king fern
lady fern
maidenhair fern
male fern
marsh fern
oak fern
royal fern
shield fern
silver fern
soft tree fern
staghorn fern
sweet fern
sword fern
tree fern

Synonyms and antonyms of hard fern in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hard fern» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD FERN

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The translations of hard fern from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard fern» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

硬蕨
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

helecho duro
570 millions of speakers

English

hard fern
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुश्किल फर्न
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

السرخس الصعب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трудно папоротник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

samambaia duro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ড ফেনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fougère dur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paku keras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fest Farn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハードシダ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하드 펀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hard paku
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

dương xỉ cứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடுமையான ஃபெர்ன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हार्ड फर्न
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sert kavun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

duro felce
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trudno paproci
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

важко папороть
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ferigă greu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκληρό φτέρη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hard varing
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

hård ormbunke
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hardt bregne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard fern

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD FERN»

The term «hard fern» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.221 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD FERN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard fern

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD FERN»

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New Flora of the British Isles
B. spicant (L.) Roth - Hard-fern. Leaves to 50(75) x 4(5)cm, the fertile more erect and slightly longer than the sterile; pinnae entire, the sterile up to 2 x 0.5cm, the fertile as long but much narrower; 2n=68. Native; woods, heaths, moors, grassy ...
Clive Stace, 2010
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Ferns: Wild Things Make a Comeback in the Garden
... Anderson's Holly Fern PACIFIC NORTHWEST Adiantum aleuticum Western Maidenhair Fern Blechnum penna-marina Little Hard Fern Blechnum spicant Deer Fern Dryopteris affinis Golden-Scaled Male Fern Dryopteris dilatata Broad Wood ...
C. Colston Burrell, 1994
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Dream Plants For The Natural Garden
BLECHNUM (BLECHNACEAE) - hard fern, deer fern 170cm/ 28in An extremely attractive species with dark green, single pinnate fronds and entire pinnae which form a rosette at ground level. Fertile (that is, spore-bearing) fronds stand fully ...
Henk Gerritsen, Piet Oudolf, 2000
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Field Flora of the British Isles
BLECHNACEAE - Hard-fern family Rhizomes short, scaly; the sori having openings towards the midrib, and the separate fertile and sterile leaves being coriaceous and 1-pinnate, are diagnostic. 1. BLECHNUM L. - Hard-ferns 1 Leaves (incL ...
Clive A. Stace, 1999
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Ferns and Fern Culture
Edwardsii, A. F.f. Findlayanum, A. F.f. Frizellae, A. F.f. minimum, A. F.f. Vernoniae, A. F.f. Vernoniae cristatum, Blechnum spicant (the Hard Fern), B. s. imbricatum, Ceterach officinarum(the Scaly Spleenwort), C. o. crenatum, Cystopteris fragilis ...
John Birkenhead, 2014
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Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides to Cold Climate Gardening: ...
... glade fern), Athyrium m Slender fragile fern, Cystopteris m Upside-down fern, Arachniodes Ferns Hardy to Zone 5 All ferns hardy to Zone 4, plus: □ Fendler's lip fern, Cheilanthes Grasses, Ferns, and Water Plants , Hard fern (deer fern), ...
Rebecca Atwater Briccetti, 2000
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The British Flora
Hard-Fern. Sori linear, longitudinal, contiguous, parallel on each side of the rib. Involucre superficial, continuous, opening ... Sw. (northern Hard- Fern) ; sterile fronds pec- tinato-pinnatifid the segments lanceolate rather obtuse, fertile fronds  ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker, 1830
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The British Flora; in Two Volumes. Vol. 1, Comprising the ...
B. boréale, Sw. (northern Hard-Fern) ; sterile fronds pectinato-pinnatifid the segments lanceolate rather obtuse, fertile fronds pinnate, pinnm linear acuminate . E. Bot. t. 1159. E. Fl. '0. iv.p. 3l6. Woods and heaths, abundant ; especially in a poor ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker, 1835
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The Dramatic Works of Baron Kotzebue
... yet earnestly) Although, Sir, I am not acquainted with the fource of vexation, yet it seems to me that your expreffions are rather too hard. Fern. Hard ! ha, ha, ha — hard ! very hard is the couch on which my poor fick wise languifhes with hunger ...
August von Kotzebue, 1803
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A Flora of the Neighbourhood of Reigate, Surrey, Containing ...
BLECHNUM. Hard-fern. B. boreale. Northern Hard-fern. 1159. 7. Damp parts of Reigate Heath. 88 HYMENDPffYlLTrM — LYCOPODIUM. HYMENOPHYLLUM. Filmy-fern. H. Tunbridgense. Tunbridge Fihny-fern. i 2 ASPIDIUM BLECHNUM. ...
George Luxford, 1838

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD FERN»

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Great winter walks: Watersmeet, North Devon
... hunting ground for Victorian fern gatherers and among the calandines and wood sorrel are attractive farms – soft shield, hart's tongue, lady's and hard fern. 7. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 13»
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"Five new works, five old works", Martin Thompson (Brett McDowell …
In Forge, colour is leached away to leave iron-hard fern, the strength of which is emphasised by the subtle placement of a delicate daisy, ... «Otago Daily Times, Feb 12»
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The Victorians started it - and now there's barely a garden in the …
The deer fern or hard fern, Blechnum spicant, is native, but, as with all blechnums, only to areas of acidic soil. They have evergreen fronds set ... «Daily Mail, Mar 09»

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