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Sweet fern   /swit fərn/   Listen
Sweet fern

noun
1.
Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia.  Synonyms: adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, Polypodium vulgare, wall fern.
2.
Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers.  Synonyms: Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina.






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"Sweet fern" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rany last nite and this morning. in the afternoon it cleared up. gosh i wish you cood see the licking Beany got tonite. me and Beany went out to go up to see Pewt and make some sweet fern sigars. Beany came over for me and went up to Pewts. on the way Beany went up an rung his doorbell and we hid behind the fence and Mister Watson, Beany's father, came out holding a light and shading it with his hand. the wind ...
— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute

... teetered to most of all was a little cup-shaped hollow high up on the border of the ledge, where the sumachs were big as small trees and where the sweet fern scented the air. The hollow was lined tidily and softly with dried grass, and made a comfortable place to sit, no doubt. At least, Dot liked it; and Peter must have had some fondness for it, too, for he slipped on when Dot was not there herself. It just fitted their little bodies, and ...
— Bird Stories • Edith M. Patch

... in, subdued and yet somehow excited. He moved from her side with a sort of push, and flung open the little casement windows. The scented gloom, heavy with the aromatic odors of life-everlasting and sweet fern, gave place to the fresh keen wind with new pine-scents in it, ...
— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer



Words linked to "Sweet fern" :   shrub, Polypodium vulgare, genus Comptonia, Comptonia, adder's fern, bush, polypody



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