Definition of Pine fern

1. Noun. Fern of Florida and West Indies and Central America with rhizome densely clad in grown hairs.

Exact synonyms: Anemia Adiantifolia
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Anemia, Genus Anemia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pine Fern

pindolol
pindone
pindown
pindownable
pindowns
pine-barren sandwort
pine-crowned
pine-needle oil
pine-tar rag
pine-weed
pine away
pine cone
pine cones
pine family
pine fern (current term)
pine finch
pine green
pine grosbeak
pine hyacinth
pine knot
pine leaf aphid
pine lily
pine lizard
pine marten
pine martens
pine mouse
pine needle
pine nut
pine nuts

Literary usage of Pine fern

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

1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"From the mission the road proceeds up the valley, alternately through groves of oak and pine, fern plains, and grassy prairies, in which are several farms, ..."

2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"From the mission the road proceeds up the valley, alternately through groves of oak and pine, fern plains, and grassy prairies, in which are several farms, ..."

3. Harriet Martineau's Autobiography by Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (1877)
"pine fern. View of Paterson, under amphitheatre of ridges. Fine situation. Figures crossing turf,—" plodding homewards." Young girls earn three or four ..."

4. Gardening for Women by Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley (1908)
"In the second stage the subjects of the elementary class will be studied more fully, together with the earthworm, crayfish, dogfish, pine, fern, selaginella ..."

5. The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General by Governor, Connecticut Board of Finance and Control, Connecticut, Board of Finance and Control (1906)
"... the following plants in the order of their advancing structure: violet pine fern yeast cone moss III Chemistry 1 Describe the preparation of oxygen. ..."

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