fernery
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fernery (plural ferneries)
- A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
- 1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind:
- My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries.
- An area naturally abundant in ferns.
- 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part I, Chapter 8, page 117:
- 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 rough poles under Don Pépé's direction.
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[edit]specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns
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area naturally abundant in ferns
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