Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective abounding in or covered with ferns.
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- adjective abounding in or covered with ferns
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Examples
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So it chanced that Sula was out in the weather, tending a blood-red fire of dragon bones and shifting away from the magic-tainted smoke on a morning when frost ferned the iron-hard ground and the chill wind froze the tears on a body's face.
In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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A bunch of us sat in the Silver Grill of the Hotel Spokane where we could see the gold fish and the baby turtles swimming in the pool of the ferned grotto in the center of the room.
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Into and across tree-ferned ravines, through dashing streams of icy water, past cataract and morass, the party plowed its devious way until long past noon.
The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Elliott Whitney
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Music from the ferned-in orchestra came in drifts, faint, not so faint.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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By a frosty-ferned brook, where water tinkled and ran clear as air and cold as ice, Jean quenched his thirst, leaning on a stone that showed drops of blood.
To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905
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