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fernery en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English fern Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English fernery From fern + -ery.

Meanings

1. A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
   • My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries. 1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind:
2. An area naturally abundant in ferns.
   • Only the memory of the waterfall, with its amazing fernery, like a hanging garden above the rocks of the gorge, was preserved in Mrs. Gould's water-color sketch; she had made it hastily one day from a cleared patch in the bushes, sitting in the shade of a roof of straw erected for her on three rough poles under Don Pépé's direction. 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part I, Chapter 8, page 117:

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Translations (3)

ga ceapach raithní (specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns) · mk па́прадник (area naturally abundant in ferns) · mk папра́диште (area naturally abundant in ferns)