fernery
noun
a collection of ferns in a garden or a potted display.
ferneries
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pluralof fernery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The New York botanist Frances Theodora Parsons wrote an influential 1899 study, “How to Know the Ferns,” and public and private greenhouse ferneries were established in Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago, among other cities.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2012
The interior of Whitestone Hall was simply dazzling in its rich rose bloom, its lights, its fountains, and rippling music from adjoining ferneries.
From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey
The yield, which is rough, unequal and woody in texture, is called virgin cork, and is useful only as a tanning substance, or for forming rustic work in ferneries, conservatories, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Nothing makes such good ferneries, you get so many crannies and corners.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Here and there, as I plodded farther and higher, I came to small garden-patches and ferneries just where one would naturally decide that no plant-creature could possibly live.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
