Wood-fern (Noun)
Meaning
Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- A few wispy shoots of a native wood-fern poking up from under fallen leaf detritus managed to penetrate a morning blanket of cold haze hovering above the small town's rural countryside.
- The botanical gardens maintain a magnificent wood-fern in the greenhouse, attracting visitors and aspiring botanists alike to marvel over its striking fronds.
- Wildlife officers use special permits for handling invasive species that threaten, among other native flora, the delicate ecosystem that the local wood-fern calls home.
- Walking along the river revealed that its misty wood-fern inhabited shallow slopes surrounding a series of tranquil pools running along its serpentine length.
- By some old names, the hillside thicket with cinnamon-colored stumps was sometimes home to sprawling wood-fern mats, these too blanketed and enriched by spongy pine needles that carpeted both trunks and terranean gaps.