War|di|an case

War|di|an case
War|di|an case «WR dee uhn»,
a close-fitting case with glass sides and top for growing and transporting small ferns and other plants.
[< Nathaniel B. Ward, 1791-1868, the English botanist who invented it + -ian]

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