noun, feminine/fu.ʒɛʁ/plural: fougères
fern
“La fougère pousse souvent dans les forêts humides et ombragées.” — The fern often grows in moist, shady forests.
Related: crosse de fougère
Inherited from Old French fulgiere, from Vulgar Latin *filicāria (“thicket of ferns”), from Latin filix (“fern”). Compare Catalan falguera, Occitan falguièra, Galician folgueira.