ferny
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.87 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to ferns.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fern, in appearance, smell, etc.
Example Sentences
- "All kinds of mosses grew by the stream—tufty, flat, ferny, and curly, green, yellow and a whitish kind that was tipped with scarlet sealing wax."
- "Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds."
- "And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves […]"
- "He skirted all stables, kennels, breweries, carpenters' shops, washhouses, places where they make tallow candles, kill oxen, forge horse-shoes, stitch jerkins—for the house was a town ringing with men at work at their various crafts—and gained the ferny path leading uphill through the park unseen."
- "We'll walk over the spring fields and through those ferny old woods."