Ferny

Quick meaning: Ferny is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to ferns.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to ferns.

More Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fern, in appearance, smell, etc.
2. Covered in or filled with ferns; flanked or surrounded by ferns.

Example Sentences

We'll walk over the spring fields and through those ferny old woods.

Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds.

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.

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 […]

Word Forms

• fernier
• ferniest

Synonyms for ferny

Depending on context, synonyms include braky, fernlike, ferned.

Antonyms for ferny

Common opposites include fernless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ferned, braky, dells, forestine, fusarial, fungal.

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