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king fern

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noun

  1. another name for para 3

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Look; the water is full six feet up the trunks of the trees; over the grass and the king fern, and the tall purple loose-strife— Oh! 

From Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley

Look at him marching along with that great branch of king fern over his shoulder!”

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

“Hum-m! if ’tweren’t for that, I could maist fling out an’ dance the ‘Rigs o’ Barley’ a-watching o’ those happy lasses,” he whimsically confessed in the ear of a king fern.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook

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