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Ferny

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to ferns.
  2. 2
    Resembling or characteristic of a fern, in appearance, smell, etc.

    "All kinds of mosses grew by the stream—tufty, flat, ferny, and curly, green, yellow and a whitish kind that was tipped with scarlet sealing wax."

  3. 3
    Covered in or filled with ferns; flanked or surrounded by ferns.

    "And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    abounding in or covered with ferns wordnet
  2. 2
    resembling ferns especially in leaf shape wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English ferny, from Old English fearniġ, equivalent to fern + -y.

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