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Growing in marshes
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fenny
Word definitions for fenny in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fenny \Fen"ny\, a. [AS. fennig.] Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy. ``Fenny snake.'' --Shak.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fenny or Fenni may refer to People Fenni , ancient people of northeastern Europe Cymreigyddion y Fenni , Welsh language society Given name Fenny Heemskerk (1919–2007), Dutch female chess master Surname Achour Fenni , poet, translator and academician from ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Characteristic of a fen; marshy, swampy. 2 Living or growing in a fen (now only of plants).
Usage examples of fenny.
Why Fenny waters afford the hottest and sweetest plants, as Calamus, Cyperus, and Crow-foot, and mudd cast out of ditches most naturally produceth Arsmart?
The rushes sharp, that on the borders grow, Bend their brown flow’rets to the stream below, Impure in all its course, in all its progress slow: Here a grave Flora scarcely deigns to bloom, Nor wears a rosy blush, nor sheds perfume: The few dull flowers that o’er the place are spread Partake the nature of their fenny bed.