| 单词 | ice fern |
| 释义 | > as lemmasice fern ice fern n. a fern-like encrustation produced esp. on the surface of glass by the action of frost; frequently in plural; cf. ice feather n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > frost > formations frostwork1648 ice flower1694 ice fern1848 1848 J. R. Lowell Vision Sir Launfal 18 Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief With quaint arabesques of ice-fern leaf. 1855 J. R. Lowell Let. 12 Apr. (1893) I. 228 For a few moments the sun shone and lighted up all these delicate ice-ferns, which, in texture, were like those star-shaped flakes that fall from very cold clouds. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 62 Fine as ice-ferns on January panes. 1930 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 23 Nov. 6 b/5 Jack Frost had not forgotten to visit our windows, decorating them with shining ice ferns. 2010 Spectator (Nexis) 10 Jan. 18 Our teenage sons grump terribly because their rooms are in an unheated attic conversion where..the windows in the morning are adorned with ice ferns. < as lemmas |
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