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fern houses

fern houses is the plural of fern house.

Meaning of fern house

Noun

fern house (plural fern houses)

  1. A type of greenhouse or shadehouse for growing ferns.
    • In the seclusion of the latticed fern house, now that dusk had fallen, he lit his pipe[.]1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 62

Questions about fern houses

What is fern houses the plural of?
Fern houses is the plural of fern house.

Words near fern houses in the dictionary

  1. fern cakes
  2. fern gullies
  3. fern gully
  4. Fern Hill
  5. fern house
  6. fern houses
  7. fern moss
  8. fern pine
  9. fern pines
  10. fern seed
  11. fern seeds

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