Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The ferns, a large order of cryptogamous plants. See
fern .
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Examples
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These rugged, gloomy scenes affright the ladies when they peep down into them from the paths above, and make timid horsemen shudder while they ride along them; but delight the naturalist with their various botany, and particularly with their curious filices with which they abound.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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The deep rocky lanes abound with _filices_, and the pastures and moist woods with _fungi_.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756
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Aa 3 373 cryptogaImia filices. ceolatae integerrimae parallelo - venosae, in - ferne attenuatae digitales.
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£t pi£los filices & veriicolorc fuperbos la macula rupes, duris ubi floribus hottus MlSCMLLANEAlLlB. VIL 365
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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