"ferny" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English ferny, from Old English fearniġ, equivalent to fern + -y.",
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    {
      "form": "fernier",
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        "comparative"
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    },
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      "form": "ferniest",
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        "superlative"
      ]
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      "expansion": "ferny (comparative fernier, superlative ferniest)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "glosses": [
        "Of, or pertaining to ferns."
      ],
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a fern, in appearance, smell, etc."
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        {
          "ref": "1922, Katherine Mansfield, “At the Bay”, in The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, Penguin, published 2007",
          "text": "And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 1, in Anne of Ingleside",
          "text": "We'll walk over the spring fields and through those ferny old woods.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Covered in or filled with ferns; flanked or surrounded by ferns."
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          "fern",
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          "surround",
          "surround"
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  "word": "ferny"
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    {
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English ferny, from Old English fearniġ, equivalent to fern + -y.",
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      "form": "fernier",
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    },
    {
      "form": "ferniest",
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        "superlative"
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        "Of, or pertaining to ferns."
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          "fern",
          "fern"
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a fern, in appearance, smell, etc."
      ]
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves […]",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1939, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 1, in Anne of Ingleside",
          "text": "We'll walk over the spring fields and through those ferny old woods.",
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        "Covered in or filled with ferns; flanked or surrounded by ferns."
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