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Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOf or pertaining to ferns. · Resembling or characteristic of a fern, in appearance, smell, etc. · Covered in or filled with ferns; flanked or surrounded by ferns.
From Middle English ferny, from Old English fearniġ, equivalent to fern + -y.
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