noun
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a place where ferns are grown
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a collection of ferns grown in such a place
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Etymology
Origin of fernery
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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
Down they went, down and down through the moisture and lush fernery.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
A case of stuffed birds, a few large pots of tropical plants, and a fernery are in keeping with the dining-room appointments.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
"I saw Miss Darrell in the fernery some five minutes since, Sir Oswald," was the reply.
From Love Works Wonders A Novel by Brame, Charlotte M.
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 Whitman, Stephen French
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 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
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 Libbey, Laura Jean
Nothing makes such good ferneries, you get so many crannies and corners.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
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 Muir, John
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