fernery
/fˈɝnɚi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
Example Sentences
- "My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries."
- "Only the memory of the waterfall, with its amazing fernery, like a hanging garden above the rocks of the gorge, was preserved in Mrs. Gould's water-color sketch; she had made it hastily one day from a cleared patch in the bushes, sitting in the shade of a roof of straw erected for her on three rough poles under Don Pépé's direction."
Etymology
Etymology tree English fern Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English fernery From fern + -ery.