Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective resembling ferns especially in leaf shape.
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- adjective Resembling a
fern .
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- adjective resembling ferns especially in leaf shape
Etymologies
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Examples
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The girls caught up to Kai, who had paused under a tree with branches that stretched out like arms draped with fernlike leaves and bright red flowers.
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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The girls caught up to Kai, who had paused under a tree with branches that stretched out like arms draped with fernlike leaves and bright red flowers.
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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The girls caught up to Kai, who had paused under a tree with branches that stretched out like arms draped with fernlike leaves and bright red flowers.
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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The girls caught up to Kai, who had paused under a tree with branches that stretched out like arms draped with fernlike leaves and bright red flowers.
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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When all goes well, the delicate white swirls form a heart or a fernlike leaf called a "rosetta."
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Chervil is a light green, lacey, fernlike leaf of Annthriscus cerefolium, a lowgrowing member of the parsley family.
Spices and Herbs -Bandra Bazar Road « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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Chervil is a light green, lacey, fernlike leaf of Annthriscus cerefolium, a lowgrowing member of the parsley family.
2008 February 17 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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Hi Nancy, I think the orange, yellow, reddish cosmos are all called C. sulphureus, the leaf is less fernlike than the tall purple/white group.
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These are reddish, fernlike patterns that may persist for hours or days on survivors.
Lichtenberg Figures 2007
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These are reddish, fernlike patterns that may persist for hours or days on survivors.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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