Wollemi pines have unusual knobby-textured bark and waxy, fernlike leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACSI v. Stearns, aka Wendell Bird vs. UC - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Here were many sumach bushes with their fernlike leaves and bright red bobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin] Reference

Use the vacuum cleaner to create a special, fernlike pattern in the carpets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nickel and Dimed]

These are reddish, fernlike patterns that may persist for hours or days on survivors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

When all goes well, the delicate white swirls form a heart or a fernlike leaf called a "rosetta.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Foam Sweet Foam: 'Latte Art'] Reference

The creatures that were staring at them from the fernlike undergrowth were sinuous, reptilian and gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard Of Karres]

Chervil is a light green, lacey, fernlike leaf of Annthriscus cerefolium, a lowgrowing member of the parsley family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spices and Herbs -Bandra Bazar Road « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1] Reference

The fernlike shapes of four tonguelets, two above and two below, suggested they were chemosensors, perhaps among other functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

So Fle - ta's hooves avoided trampling the sponges and fernlike graptolites, and the squidlike nautiloids watched with - out reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot Adept]

Then a purple fernlike structure, a plant glowing against a velvet dark back­ground, grew from his mind and towered out into all space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Mercenary]

Every morning the ground was coated with a thick cover of hoarfrost, and the windows bore delicate, fernlike traceries of frost on the inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

Her legs bear the tracing of a fernlike burn often left by lightning.    From Wordnik.com.  [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference

The tall, fernlike trees were alive with monkeys, snakes, and lizards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land That Time Forgot] Reference

Dill's green leaves are wispy and fernlike, and have a soft, sweet taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

Within them flowers and groves of laced, fernlike trees, pillared pavilions nestled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Pool] Reference

Fennel is a green-tinged almost white bulb with fernlike feathery dark green leaves at the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.appeal-democrat.com - News :] Reference

Above her, through the lacy, fernlike pineneedles, she saw blue sky and a pale star just showing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of the Forest] Reference

Tiny green diatoms create the illusion of a fernlike forest as they attach to their marine-invertebrate hosts.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

Grief held steadily along the Broom Road, which curved and twisted through a lush growth of flowers and fernlike algarobas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Feathers of the Sun] Reference

It is delightful to picture the commotion in the fernlike seclusion which enveloped the women of the Hawthorne household when this note was opened and read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference

Mountain misery (Chamaebatia foliolosa) comes to mind: a member of the rose family with white flowers and fernlike leaves, common on the western side of the Sierra.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Many of the fernlike forms, however, have distinct affinities with the cycads, of which they may be the ancestors, and some bear seeds and must be classed as gymnosperms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

The resurrection plant, a desert plant found in parts of the American West and the Near East, grows just like any other plant when there's enough water around, sending roots into the ground and sporting green, fernlike leaves.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the distance he saw the torrents of fiery lava from the volcanoes reflected in the sky, and faintly heard their thunderous crashes, while the fire-flies twinkled unconcernedly in the hollow, and the night winds swayed the fernlike branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A journey in other worlds A romance of the future] Reference

In the distance be saw the torrents of fiery lava from the volcanoes reflected in the sky, and faintly heard their thunderous crashes, while the fire-flies twinkled unconcernedly in the hollow, and the night winds swayed the fernlike branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey in Other Worlds] Reference

There was a suggestion of the fernlike but gigantic age of growth of the distant past, the past when the earth's surface was yet warm and its air misty, and there was an exuberance of all plant and forest growth, something compared with which the growth in the same latitude, just now, would make, it may be, but a stunted showing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference

An almost pathognomonic cutaneous feature known as feathering or lightning prints comprises linear, fernlike, superficial skin markings (also called keraunographic marks) that disappear after several days. 19 These cutaneous manifestations of lightning injury usually consist of erythematous streaks that do not blanch on diascopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

His rack of tail feathers fanned out laterally, like a turkey’s, but a Pfenix just as easily could unfurl his close-coiled camouflage feathers, which spiked globally all about him, affording a sort of private chamber of airy, concealing, fernlike fronds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

Some dried, fernlike leaves served for couches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference

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Think of viewing in one morning of two hours 'length, a score of trees we had hitherto known only in the tales of the tropics: the traveler's tree with its fernlike leaves, the cannon-ball tree, the deadly upas, the nourishing breadfruit, the clove, the cinnamon, the mace or nutmeg, the vanilla, the guava, the cork, the almond, the mulberry, the mango, the sandalwood!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions] Reference