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Fern vs Fernery - What's the difference?

fern | fernery |

As a proper noun fern

is (female) from the fern plant.

As a noun fernery is

a specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.

fern

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

    • Synonyms

    * (Pteridophyta) (archaic)

    Derived terms

    * (hydrozoan skeletons) * (in genus Asparagus ) * ) * ferny * male fern * (in genus Comptonia ) * tree fern

    See also

    * bracken

    External links

    * ("fern" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    fernery

    English

    Noun

    (ferneries)
  • A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
  • * 1997 , Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind
    • My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries .