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
There was the story of her garden full of rare flowers, and her ferneries of rare ferns, and her aviary of rare birds.
From An Australian Lassie by A.J. (Alfred J.) Johnson
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
Then there wuz a display of every kind of horticultural machinery and implements, glass housen, aquariums, ferneries, all sorts of ornaments for gardens.
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley
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
