Definition of Royal fern

1. Noun. Large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Royal Fern

roxatidine
roxbyite
royal
royal agaric
royal blue
royal blues
royal brace
royal bumps
royal casino
royal charter
royal court
royal families
royal family
royal fern (current term)
royal flush
royal flushes
royal house
royal household
royal icing
royal jelly
royal line
royal marriage
royal marriages
royal mast
royal osmund
royal palm
royal penguin
royal penguins

Literary usage of Royal fern

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"royal fern FAMILY. Large ferns with stout often erect rootstocks, 1-2 pinnate leaves coiled in ... ROYALFERN ..."

2. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"Ostrich Fern, Matteuccia Struthiopteris. royal fern, Osmunda regalis. Four hardy ferns suitable for damp places: Polypody, Polypodium vulgare. ..."

3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1892)
"royal fern ( Osmunda ), the most striking of British feme ; it grows in damp places, and used to Boyal Fern ..."

4. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1893)
"... in 1887, got by Trappist, her dam, Lobelia, by Cathedral, out of Essence, by St Albans. 1891 bo by royal fern - - - I м т n nr„- 1892 br. f. by ..."

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