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FERNERY

Definition: FERNERY

FERNERY

Noun

1. A place for rearing ferns.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Photo Album: FERNERY

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Fernery, Horticultural Building, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FERNERY

Language Translations for "FERNERY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏موضع تزرع به السراخس. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

място за отглеждане на папрати. (various references)

   

Czech

  

místa, kde rostou kapradin. (various references)

   

French

  

fougère (fern). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τόποσ με φτερέσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משרכ". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

páfrányos terület. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erneryfay

   

Portuguese

  

feto (bracken, brake, embryo, fern, fetus, foetus). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

место (betting shop, clubland, location, place, point, position, room, seat, site, space, spot, stand, station, stead), заросшее папоротником. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

paprat (bracken, fern, tree fern). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

invernadero de helechos. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สถานที่ปลูกเฟิร์น. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

зарості папороті, папоротева оранжерея. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nơi mọc đầy dương xỉ bộ sưu tập dương xỉ sống. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: FERNERY

Misspellings

"FERNERY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ernery, Fahrner, farnesyl, Farney, Fernau, ferne, flexneri, Freney. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FERNERY"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "FERNERY" (pronounced fer"nerē)
3-n er ēbinary, cannery, chicanery, finery, greenery, gunnery, joinery, machinery, nunnery, ornery, plenary, refinery, scenery, winery.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: FERNERY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-n-r-r-y"

-2 letters: ferny, ferry, feyer, freer, frere, fryer, reefy, refer, refry.

-3 letters: eery, erne, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre, fere, fern, free, reef.

-4 letters: ere, ern, err, eye, fee, fen, fer, fey, fry, nee, ree, ref, rye, yen.

-5 letters: ef, en, er, ne, re, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-n-r-r-y"
 

+1 letter: ferrymen, refinery.

 

+3 letters: effrontery.

 

+4 letters: freemasonry, reverifying.

 

+5 letters: ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, recertifying, refreshingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FERNERY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 45 52 4E 45 52 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .    .-.    -.    .    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000101 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#69 &#82 &#78 &#69 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0045 0052 004E 0045 0052 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40395248395259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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