fernery
noun
fernery is a noun meaning “A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-R-N-E-R-Y and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fernery is ferneries.
What does fernery mean?
noun
- 1
A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
- 2
An area naturally abundant in ferns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fernery?
Fernery has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fernery
- ferneries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fernery?
Fernery appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fernery come from?
From fern + -ery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).