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fetos [in this context]

English translation: ferns

13:49 Dec 31, 2006
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany
Portuguese term or phrase: fetos [in this context]
The phrase reads:

(...) encontrando-se ainda, um extracto mais baixo rico em fetos, musgos, líquenes, hepáticas e outras plantas de pequeno porte.

It is apparently a kind of vegetation similar to mosses (musgos) and lichens (líquenes), but what is the English equivalent?
Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 06:38
English translation:ferns
Explanation:
felicidades, P.
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P Forgas
Brazil
Local time: 06:38
Grading comment
This answer seems simpler for laymen's use.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3bracken
rhandler
4 +2ferns
P Forgas


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
ferns


Explanation:
felicidades, P.

P Forgas
Brazil
Local time: 06:38
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
This answer seems simpler for laymen's use.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  suesimons: Definitely!
3 hrs
agree  T o b i a s: more generic
646 days
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
bracken


Explanation:
Here's Webster's definition:

bracken (braken)
n.
1 any of a genus (Pteridium, family Polypodiaceae) of large, coarse, weedy ferns, occurring in meadows, woods, and esp. wastelands: very closely related to the brake ferns
2 a growth of such ferns

Etymology
[ME braken < ON *brakni > Dan bregne]

(C)1995 Zane Publishing, Inc. (C)1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Here's Aurelio definition:

feto2
[Do lat. filictu.]
S. m. Bot.
1. Designação comum a todos os pteridófitos da ordem dos filicales; filifolha.

filicales
S. f. pl. Bot.
1. Ordem de plantas herbáceas, arborescentes ou, por vezes, trepadeiras, da classe das filicíneas, que compreende os fetos (v. feto2), e que são caracterizadas por frondes exstipuladas e pela reprodução através de esporos.

rhandler
Local time: 06:38
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti: ótima pesquisa!
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