sweet fern

noun

1. a North American shrub, Comptonia (or Myrica ) asplenifolia, having scented fernlike leaves and heads of brownish flowers: family Myricaceae

Example Sentences

Boxberry, fever-bush, sweet fern, and horseradish make a good and healthy diet-drink.

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But Nelly sank down as pale as ashes into the sweet-fern bushes, and looked at her strangely.

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Rachel is always doing little things for her, and bringing home bunches of sweet-fern and everlasting.

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The sweet-fern is changed mostly to russet, but still retains its wild and delightful fragrance when pressed in the hand.

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It was a perfect acre of turf, only here and there I could already see a cushion of juniper, or a tuft of sweet fern or bayberry.

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