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Ferny

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Adjective

1. ferned, ferny

abounding in or covered with ferns

Example Sentences:
'the ferny undergrowth'

2. fernlike, ferny

resembling ferns especially in leaf shape

Example Sentences:
'the ferny shadows of locust leaves'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ferny

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noun
1. 
any tracheophyte plant of the phylum Filicinophyta, having roots, stems, and fronds and reproducing by spores formed in structures (sori) on the fronds
See also tree fern
2. 
any of certain similar but unrelated plants, such as the sweet fern

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Ferny

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noun
any of a widespread division (Filicophyta) of nonflowering embryophytes having roots, stems, and fronds, and reproducing by spores instead of by seeds

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ferny

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n.
Any of numerous flowerless, seedless vascular plants that produce spores giving rise to free-living gametophytes and that often have dissected leaves.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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