"fern house" meaning in English

See fern house in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fern houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fern house (plural fern houses)
  1. A type of greenhouse or shadehouse for growing ferns.
    Sense id: en-fern_house-en-noun-qS4kZZpZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fern houses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fern house (plural fern houses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 62:",
          "text": "In the seclusion of the latticed fern house, now that dusk had fallen, he lit his pipe[.]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of greenhouse or shadehouse for growing ferns."
      ],
      "id": "en-fern_house-en-noun-qS4kZZpZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "greenhouse",
          "greenhouse"
        ],
        [
          "shadehouse",
          "shadehouse"
        ],
        [
          "fern",
          "fern"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fern house"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fern houses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fern house (plural fern houses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 62:",
          "text": "In the seclusion of the latticed fern house, now that dusk had fallen, he lit his pipe[.]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of greenhouse or shadehouse for growing ferns."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "greenhouse",
          "greenhouse"
        ],
        [
          "shadehouse",
          "shadehouse"
        ],
        [
          "fern",
          "fern"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fern house"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fern house meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (f074e77 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.