lady fern

noun

1. a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.

lady fern

noun

1. a large, graceful, but variable fern, Athyrium filix-femina, with bipinnate fronds, commonly found on damp acid soils in woods and on hillsides

Example Sentences

The fronds of the Lady Fern develop in the spring of the year.

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But in later summer, judging by my own experience, the Lady Fern loses much of its delicacy.

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Nightshade flourished on the threshold, death lilies by the hearth, dianthus and lady fern.

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However, I was dashed with that, and pretended not to mean it; only to pluck some lady-fern, whose elegance did me no good.

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See that magnificent tuft of Lady-fern on yonder bank, arching its exquisitely cut fronds so elegantly on every side.

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