fernery

1 7.2

A place where people grow and show ferns

noun
/ˈfɜrnəri/

: helechera

Visitors can stroll through the fernery, enjoying the cool shade and lush greenery.

Examples

In the heart of the city, the fernery provides a peaceful retreat full of delicate ferns.
The fernery in the botanical garden showcases a variety of exotic ferns.
On either side were banks knee-deep in lush fernery.

Fiction book (2002)
You may also discover that the shady spot perfect for a fernery right now gets blasted by the sun when it's high in the sky in summer.

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How Specialized

fernery

1 7.2

conservatory

10 6.0

greenhouse

52 2.3

garden

979 1.0

Surface Forms

fernery singular

ferneries plural

Morphology

fernery = fern (transparent) = fern + ery

Formed by adding the locative/collective suffix '-ery' to 'fern', yielding a place for or collection of ferns; meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Fernery comes from fern, a common 'leafy plant', plus the ending -ery, which means 'a place for' and appears in words like nursery and bakery. So a fernery is literally a garden or room that is a 'place for' growing and showing ferns.