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lady fern

noun

  1. a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.


lady fern

noun

  1. a large, graceful, but variable fern, Athyrium filix-femina, with bipinnate fronds, commonly found on damp acid soils in woods and on hillsides
“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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Example Sentences

The fronds of the Lady Fern develop in the spring of the year.

But in later summer, judging by my own experience, the Lady Fern loses much of its delicacy.

Nightshade flourished on the threshold, death lilies by the hearth, dianthus and lady fern.

However, I was dashed with that, and pretended not to mean it; only to pluck some lady-fern, whose elegance did me no good.

See that magnificent tuft of Lady-fern on yonder bank, arching its exquisitely cut fronds so elegantly on every side.

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