fernery

American  

[fur-nuh-ree] / ˈfɜr nə ri /

noun

plural

ferneries

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.

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fernery British  

/ ˈfɜːnərɪ /

noun

1. a place where ferns are grown

2. a collection of ferns grown in such a place

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Etymology

Origin of fernery

First recorded in 1830–40; fern + -ery

Example Sentences

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 Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The proper quarters for it is a wire-covered fernery which should be placed in a warm but moist situation and the foliage daily sprinkled with water.

From Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot by Douglas, Alan

It cost him a palpable effort to bring them back to the little dark consulting-room, with its cool slabs of aged oak and the summer fernery that hid the hearth.

From The Crime Doctor by Hornung, Ernest William

She made no objection, and they were presently sitting together under the soft light of the ribbed Chinese lanterns in a fernery at the back of the rooms.

From The Giant's Robe by Anstey, F.

A second window in a corner opened into a small fernery, in which there was a miniature water-fall that trickled with a slumberous sound over moss-grown rockwork.

From Vixen, Volume III. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)