fernery
fernery noun: a specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
Noun
fernery (plural ferneries)
- A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
- My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries.1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind
- An area naturally abundant in ferns.
- Only the memory of the waterfall, with its amazing fernery, like a hanging garden above the rocks of the gorge, was preserved in Mrs. Gould's water-color sketch; she had made it hastily one day from a cleared patch in the bushes, sitting in the shade of a roof of straw erected for her on three...1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part I, Chapter 8, page 117
Forms of fernery
| plural | ferneries |
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Origin of fernery
From fern + -ery.
Questions about fernery
- What does fernery mean?
- Fernery means a specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
- What part of speech is fernery?
- Fernery is a noun.
- What is the plural of fernery?
- The plural of fernery is ferneries.
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