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- noun Plural form of
fern .
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Examples
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Joseph Watts, charged with stealing nine ferns from a garden.
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They all seem like good travellers, linked by their enthusiasm and their shared interest in ferns, yet open to new experiences and sights.
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They all seem like good travellers, linked by their enthusiasm and their shared interest in ferns, yet open to new experiences and sights.
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Feathered stars, roses set in ferns, rayed trefoils, seaweed-like fronds full of little suns, they have all the same angles and are made hexagonally.
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Maidenhair, the most beautiful of the hardy ferns, is to be found in quantities in many of our woods, particularly those covering hillsides.
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Joseph Watts, charged with stealing nine ferns from a garden.
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At stylish dinner-parties, an ornamented card, tastefully designed with flowers in water-colors, or a wreath of green ferns, is often laid upon each plate with the gentleman's or lady's name written upon it; and the host asks each gentleman to take the lady he designates down to dinner.
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding Sophia Orne 1873
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Elless and his colleagues hope their ferns could be adapted to help purify water in these countries; the method is potentially very cheap, and the plants grow readily in warm, humid climates like those of south-east Asia.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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He is also an amateur pteridologist, which is to say he's interested in ferns.
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He is also an amateur pteridologist, which is to say he's interested in ferns.
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