Meaning of Fernery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
2. An area naturally abundant in ferns.

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Examples

“My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries.”

“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.”

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