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Wardian
(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.