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wardian


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wardian  \Ward"i*an\,  a. 
  Designating,  or  pertaining  to  a  kind  of  glass  inclosure  for 
  keeping  ferns,  mosses,  etc.,  or  for  transporting  growing 
  plants  from  a  distance;  as  a  Wardian  case  of  plants;  --  so 
  named  from  the  inventor,  Nathaniel  B.  Ward,  an  Englishman. 




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