NOUN
- beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes
How To Use sensitive fern In A Sentence
- She has Christmas fern, autumn fern, ostrich fern, northern maidenhair fern, tassel fern, Japanese painted fern, lady fern, cinnamon fern, sensitive fern and one she calls tatting fern that was new to me. News | SJ | http://www.goupstate.com
- There is also Onoclaea sensibilis, the sensitive fern, and our native common polypody, Polypodium vulgare.
- Horehound, horsemint, and the sensitive fern grew close to the edge, under the willows and alders, and wool-grass on the islands, as along the Assabet River in Concord. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858