fernery

English

Etymology

From fern +‎ -ery.

Noun

fernery (plural ferneries)

1. A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
   • 1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind:

     My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries.

2. An area naturally abundant in ferns.
   • 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part I, Chapter 8, page 117:

     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.

Related terms

• fern

Translations

specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns

• Irish: ceapach raithní f

area naturally abundant in ferns

• Macedonian: па́прадник m (pápradnik), папра́диште n (paprádište)