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Definition of Mountain fern

1. Noun. Common European mountain fern having fragrant lemon or balsam scented fronds.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Fern

Literary usage of Mountain fern

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

1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"THE mountain fern. Oh, the fern, the fern, the Irish hill fern, That girds our blue lakes from Lough Ine to Lough Erne, That waves on our crags like the ..."

2. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"THE mountain fern OH, the fern, the fern, the Irish hill fern, That girds our blue lakes from Lough Ine to Lough Erne, That waves on our crags like the ..."

3. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1896)
"First in frequency comes the mountain fern, Aspidium N~ove- ... and, therefore, it need not be mistaken for the mountain fern just described. ..."

4. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club by Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club (1868)
"No more grew there, but in some concealed nook higher up it probably grows in much greater abundance. The brittle mountain fern, ..."

5. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1875)
"And on some steep overhanging bank, exposed to the rough blasts that sweep the valley, the Mountain- fern rears its ever-youthful head. ..."

6. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1875)
"And on some stee¡ overhanging bank, exposed to the rou¡,'n blasts that sweep the valley, the Mountain- fern rears its ever-youthful head. ..."

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