parsley fern

noun

1. a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
2. any of several other plants with crisped foliage, resembling that of parsley

Example Sentences

In the interstices of the stones spleenwort and the parsley-fern grow; there are mosses and lichens too, and stone-crop.

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The Parsley Fern has a thick root-stock from which the fronds grow up in tufts.

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The Parsley Fern sends up its green fronds in the month of May, and the fertile leaves follow soon after.

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He found, for instance, a hill not far off which was entirely overgrown with the parsley-fern.

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