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Definition of Killarney fern
1. Noun. Large stout fern of extreme western Europe.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Killarney Fern
Literary usage of Killarney fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"The killarney fern. The group to which the killarney fern (Trichomanes radicans)
belongs, differs from our common ferns in their manner of fruiting as well ..."
2. Alpine Flowers for English Gardens by William Robinson (1870)
"Even the rare killarney fern, usually kept in houses, may be grown successfully
in a cave in the rock-garden. Fig. 25 shows the entrance to Mr. ..."
3. Alpine Flowers for Gardens: Rock, Wall, Marsh Plants, and Mountain Shrubs by William Robinson (1910)
"Entrance to Cave for killarney fern. of Hart's Tongue guarding the entrance. ...
Here in the darkness grows the killarney fern, tufts ROCKS FORMED OF ..."
4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... the killarney fern) seems to be almost restricted to the south of Ireland.
In this family the sporangia occur at the margins of ..."
5. Oceana, Or, England and Her Colonies by James Anthony Froude (1887)
"... with pale green fronds—transparent, like the killarney fern—the most perfectly
lovely subject for imitation in wood-carving that I have ever met with. ..."
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