Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
fern .
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Examples
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"Imagine a great billowing sea of infinite shades of green, fronds waving everywhere, light, beautifully stencilled elk-fern, starting with a breadth of two feet and tapering to lengths of four or five; sword-fern shooting stiffly erect, and whole knolls mantled in maidenhair."
The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson
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She was heedless of the stream that gurgled beside the trail among the evergreen sword-fern -- a noisy betrayer of the mountain's angle.
A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903
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