parsley fern
Britishnoun
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a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
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any of several other plants with crisped foliage, resembling that of parsley
Example Sentences
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They comprise the few fragile grasses that grew on the island before Homo sapiens landed, including the tiny parsley fern, half the length of your little finger.
From BBC
Scrambling over a limestone wall tufted thick with parsley fern, he noticed Mabel stooping down over an object which lay among the heather where a rough cartroad approached a wooden bridge.
From Project Gutenberg
Scrambling over a limestone wall tufted thick with parsley fern, he noticed Mabel stooping over an object which lay among the heather where a rough cartroad approached a wooden bridge.
From Project Gutenberg
At the top a stone railway bridge, the interstices facing the sea full of parsley fern, wild maidenhair, hart's-tongue, and a beautiful species unknown to me.
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Wordsworth, suddenly stopping before a little bunch of harebells, which along with some parsley fern, grew out of a wall, he exclaimed, 'How perfectly beautiful that is!
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