Definitions for ferny

ferny fern·y

Spelling: [fur-nee]
IPA: /ˈfɜr ni/

Ferny is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in ferny (efnry).

Definitions for ferny

adjective

  1. pertaining to, consisting of, or like ferns:
  2. abounding in or overgrown with ferns:

Origin of ferny

First recorded in 1515-25; fern + -y1

Examples for ferny

"You know ferny Woods are much as a mile this side of the Moodys'," she was saying.

The intense stillness was broken only by the leap of maska-longe on the distant bars and the rubbing of elbows in the ferny brake.

This side was pretty, too, though there were no rocks nor ferny coves.

I was the first to reach it, which I did by scrambling down the ferny bank.

We all sat down on the ferny slopes and p. 169waited and listened.

A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross.

They paused for noonday lunch in a grove of ferny trees beyond the plain, then scaled some rough lava-like rocks.

Deep ravines run down on either hand through green, ferny sheep-walks, dotted with innumerable sheep.

And we were cool in our ferny bower, out of the strong hot sunshine.

When bruised its resinous glands give out a pleasing, ferny odor.

Word Value for ferny
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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