fernery

American  

[fur-nuh-ree] / ˈfɜr nə ri /

noun

• ferneries
  plural

1. a collection of ferns in a garden or a potted display.

2. a place or a glass case in which ferns are grown for ornament.

---

fernery British  

/ ˈfɜːnərɪ /

noun

1. a place where ferns are grown

2. a collection of ferns grown in such a place

---

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ferneries
  plural

---

Etymology

Origin of fernery

First recorded in 1830–40; fern + -ery

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

fernery ferneries

The fernery was flanked by two other handwoven baskets of sweet-grass.

From Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

In the famous gardens just outside of Calcutta, the author visited a large conservatory occupied solely as a fernery, in which over thirty thousand specimens were classified.

From The Pearl of India by Maturin Murray Ballou

Here’s the tennis-lawn, and there’s the fernery, and here’s a prosaic gravel path dividing the two.

From A Question of Marriage by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

No one would be likely to be near the corner of the balcony opposite Valeria’s room or in the obscure fernery on the stoop below.

From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley

Crossing the hall, she entered the fernery, where palms rose against the stone arches of the windows, and hanging baskets overflowed with long tendrils above a wicker couch that was covered with red cushions.

From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman

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

I had no desire to continue in this depression, as I should in going north, for I should find nothing but lakes, marshes and ferneries, infested with the same primitive and monstrous forms of life.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---