Definitions for tree-fern

tree-fern tree fern

Tree-Fern is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in tree-fern (-eeefnrrt).

Definitions for tree-fern

noun

  1. any of various ferns, mostly tropical and chiefly of the family Cyatheaceae, that attain the size of trees, sending up a straight trunklike stem with foliage at the summit.

Origin of tree-fern

First recorded in 1840-50

Examples for tree-fern

Twenty or thirty species of ferns (including a tree fern) were luxuriant and handsome.

The stout rootstocks are often erect, rising several inches to a foot above the ground, as if in imitation of a tree fern.

The descent shewed nothing remarkable: towards the nullah I noticed Engelhaardtia, tree fern, and Gaultheria deflexa.

The palm, the tree fern, and bamboo here flourish in free luxuriance.

Its rising caudex, often creeping for several inches over bare rocks, suggests the habit of a tree fern.

Seeing that she is accompanied by a gentleman in khaki he discreetly withdraws out of hearing and tidies up a tree fern.

This she does by digging a tunnel, generally under the roots of a tree fern.

These giant leaves sway in the summer winds, giving the tree the grace of a tree fern.

Word Value for tree-fern
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4

Words with friends

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