fern leaf
Feathery green growth
A fern leaf is the frond of a fern—the distinctive feathery, often deeply divided foliage that characterizes these ancient plants.
The term appears in compound forms describing things with similar shapes or patterns: fern-leaf yarrow, a fern-leaf design on the pottery.
Also written as two words or hyphenated.
- frondLarge, segmented plant blade
- brackenCoarse, spreading fern
- fiddleheadUnfurling fern frond
- greenColor of vegetation
- unfurlingOpening from rolled state
delicate · lacy · woodland · forest floor · shade · spore · moisture · forest · undergrowth · prehistoric · curl · feathery · damp · fossil · pattern · pressed · Victorian parlor · botanical
- leavespine needle, frond, fronds, palm frond, lily pad
- Fractalsfractal, fractals, self-similar, Hausdorff dimension, recursion
- leaf partsblade, petiole, midrib, lamina, margin
foliage morphology
fern leafsimple leaf
Undivided leaf blade
needle · pine needle · grass blade · lily pad · palm frond
fern, leaf, ferns, leaves, leafy, leaflet, leaflets, leafed, leafing