Crossword clues for ferny
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ferny \Fern"y\, a.
Abounding in ferns.
resembling a fern; fernlike.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or pertaining to ferns 2 Like a fern, having the shape or feel of a fern. 3 Covered in ferns.
WordNet
Usage examples of "ferny".
She recalled a blurred impres-sion of lush ferny undergrowth nestled about the boles of palmlike trees.
She recalled a blurred impression of lush ferny undergrowth nestled about the boles of palmlike trees.
Given Keltorus' hatred of the Sisterhood, she'd almost surely have been killed, brutally, if she'd continued alone to Ferny Cove.
They walked along under strange tropical trees, trees like Phil had never seen before: some with ferny leaves and masses of orange blossoms, some with purple flowers, some with doughy-looking trunks.
On both sides, ferny banks rose sharply toward ridges densely wooded with silver birches.
On one of their supervised "foragings," the children had spotted a shy, hip-high, brown-furred beast in the ferny peat bogs.
Likely, the typic one of them, (standing, no doubt, for hundreds, thousands,) crawls aside to some bush-clump, or ferny tuft, on receiving his death-shot -- there, sheltering a little while, soaking roots, grass and soil with red blood -- the battle advances, retreats, flits from the scene, sweeps by -- and there, haply with pain and suffering, (yet less, far less, than is supposed,) the last lethargy winds like a serpent round him -- the eyes glaze in death -- none recks -- Perhaps the burial-squads, in truce, a week afterwards, search not the secluded spot -- And there, at last, the Bravest Soldier crumbles in the soil of mother earth, unburied and unknown.