Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See fern.

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Examples

  • "Imagine a great billowing sea of infinite shades of green, fronds waving everywhere, light, beautifully stencilled elk-fern, starting with a breadth of two feet and tapering to lengths of four or five; sword-fern shooting stiffly erect, and whole knolls mantled in maidenhair."

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • She was heedless of the stream that gurgled beside the trail among the evergreen sword-fern -- a noisy betrayer of the mountain's angle.

    A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903

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