fern seed

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   the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible

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Questions about fern seed

What does fern seed mean?

fern seed means "the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible".

Is fern seed a common word?

fern seed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.