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Definition of Silver fern

1. Noun. Tropical American fern having fronds with white undersides.

2. Noun. Fern of southern tropical Africa having fronds with white undersides.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Fern

silver birch silver birches silver bream silver breams silver bromide silver bullet silver bullets silver cell silver certificate silver chloride

silver compounds silver cone silver cord silver dollar silver dollars silver fern (current term) silver fir silver firs silver fluoride silver foil

silver foxes silver frost silver frosts silver general silver generals silver goal silver goals silver gray

Literary usage of Silver fern

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The finest Gold or silver fern will present an unsightly appearance if syringed or watered overhead, as the water carries off the farinn. ..."

2. Adventure Guide to New Zealand by Bette Flagler (2005)
"silver fern The most famous tree fern is the ponga or silver fern. The silver fern is New Zealand's national symbol and the one you'll see being worn by the ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1903)
"With the exception of a species in Madagascar, the group is confined to the tropics of America, where the species known as .the silver fern is perhaps the ..."

4. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1861)
"The silver fern (Pteris argyrea, Moore) is a native of Central India, ... The silver fern (PIG. 18) is fortunately easy of cultivation, a very strong grower ..."

5. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Annual silver fern. Stipes 1 to 4 inches long. Frond slender, 1 to 3 inches long, oblong-oval, twice or thrice pinnate, smooth. Pinnules oval, wedge-shaped, ..."

6. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1894)
"... silver fern find a home on the slopes of the drains, and though more and more spindly as the shade increases are often to be found when canes are cut. ..."

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