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Definition of Fern seed
1. Noun. The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible.
Definition of Fern seed
1. Noun. (botany) The asexual, dustlike spores of a fern which resemble seeds ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fern Seed
Literary usage of Fern seed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science from an Easy Chair: A Second Series by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"T 7" E have the receipt of fern-seed; we walk invisible," VV says one of Prince
Hal's rollicking companions in Shakespeare's play of "Henry IV. ..."
2. Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and by William Carew Hazlitt (1905)
"We steal as in a castle, cocksure ; we have the receipt of fern-seed, ... Nay,
I think rather you are more beholden to the night than to the fern-seed, ..."
3. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"Thus it may be taken as certain that fern-seed is golden, ... Now, like fern-seed,
the mistletoe is gathered either at Midsummer or Christmas'-—that is, ..."
4. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"This circumstance relative to fern-seed is alluded to in Beaumont and Fletcher's
Fair Maid of the Inn : " Had you Gyges" ring ? ..."
5. Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the North by Charles Hardwick (1872)
"MOST peoples have, in some form or other, preserved the traditionary superstition
that fern-seed was miraculously endowed with the power of rendering its ..."
6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1865)
"Shakespeare makes one of his characters in Henry IV say, " we have the recipe of
fern-seed, we walk invisible." And Ben Jonson says, " I had no medicine, ..."
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