air fern
chiefly US
noun
A dried colony of the hydrozoan Sertularia argentea, which when dyed green has a fern-like appearance and is sold for ornament.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Walla Walla Union-Bulletin.
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- pearly queen
- pearly whites
- Pearmain
- pear midge
- pearmonger
- pear pearl
- pear psylla
- pear-quince
- pear-shaped
- pear shell
- pear slug
- Pearsonian
- Pearson, Karl
- Pearson, Lester Bowles
- Pearson's correlation coefficient
- Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient
- Pears, Sir Peter
- pear sucker
- peart
- pearten
- pear thorn
- pear tree
- pearwood
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