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Definition of Sweet fern
1. Noun. Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia.
Generic synonyms: Polypody
2. Noun. Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers.
Group relationships: Comptonia, Genus Comptonia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Fern
Literary usage of Sweet fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"sweet fern soils — Patience and contentment of the French settlers, and restlessness
of the Anglo-Saxons. ..."
2. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"sweet fern soils — Patience and contentment of the French settlers, and restlessness
of the Anglo-Saxons.—Shediac, famed for its oysters. ..."
3. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"sweet fern soils — Patience and contentment of the French settlers, and restlessness
of the Anglo-Saxons.—Shediac, famed for its oysters. ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier (1894)
"sweet fern THE subtle power in perfume found Nor priest nor sibyl vainly learned ;
On Grecian shrine or Aztec mound No censer idly burned ..."
5. The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier: In Seven Volumes by John Greenleaf Whittier (1891)
"sweet fern. THE subtle power in perfume found Nor priest nor sibyl vainly learned;
On Grecian shrine or Aztec mound No censer idly burned. ..."
6. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"sweet fern soils — Patience and contentment of the French settlers, and restlessness
of the Anglo-Saxons. ..."
7. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"sweet fern soils — Patience and contentment of the French settlers, and restlessness
of the Anglo-Saxons.—Shediac, famed for its oysters. ..."
8. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"sweet fern soils — Patience and contentment of the French settlers, and restlessness
of the Anglo-Saxons.—Shediac, famed for its oysters. ..."
9. The Complete Poetical Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier (1894)
"sweet fern THE subtle power in perfume found Nor priest nor sibyl vainly learned ;
On Grecian shrine or Aztec mound No censer idly burned ..."
10. The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier: In Seven Volumes by John Greenleaf Whittier (1891)
"sweet fern. THE subtle power in perfume found Nor priest nor sibyl vainly learned;
On Grecian shrine or Aztec mound No censer idly burned. ..."
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