🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

fougère

Pronunciation / Transliteration: foo-zher

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fern/fɜrn/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le jardin était rempli de fougères luxuriantes."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A type of plant that has feathery or leafy fronds and reproduces by spores rather than seeds.

    "The garden was filled with lush ferns that thrived in the shade."
  2. 2

    Any of various plants of the order Polypodiales, typically characterized by their distinctive leaf structure.

    "She collected different species of ferns during her hike in the forest."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'fern' originates from the Old English 'fearn', which is derived from Proto-Germanic '*farnō'. The term has been used since the early medieval period to describe a group of non-flowering vascular plants that reproduce via spores.

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