Frond bearer
The crossword clue "Frond bearer" is answered by FERN, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FERN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FERN answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FERN
Every other clue in this collection answered by FERN, most used first.
- Plant with fronds - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
- Flowerless plant - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- House plant - used 29 times, most recently in 2001
- Office plant - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Terrarium plant - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
- Seedless plant - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Bouquet greenery - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Forest plant - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Frond-bearing plant - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Nonflowering plant - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
- "Charlotte's Web" girl - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Plant with spores - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Spore producer - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Common office plant - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Spore-producing plant - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Fronded plant - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Common houseplant - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Polypody. - used 8 times, most recently in 1991
- Maidenhair, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Plant with fiddleheads - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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- Ring bearer - TREE, used 9 times
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