fernlike vs ferny what difference
what is difference between fernlike and ferny
English
Etymology
fern + -like
Adjective
fernlike (comparative more fernlike, superlative most fernlike)
- Resembling a fern.
English
Etymology
fern + -y
Adjective
ferny (comparative fernier, superlative ferniest)
- Of, or pertaining to ferns. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- Resembling or characteristic of a fern, in appearance, smell, etc.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Time,” [1]
- All kinds of mosses grew by the stream—tufty, flat, ferny, and curly, green, yellow and a whitish kind that was tipped with scarlet sealing wax.
- 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies, London: Faber & Faber, Chapter One,
- Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Time,” [1]
- Covered in or filled with ferns; flanked or surrounded by ferns.
- 1922, Katherine Mansfield, “At the Bay” in The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, Penguin, 2007,
- And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves […]
- 1922, Katherine Mansfield, “At the Bay” in The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, Penguin, 2007,
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