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maiden name |
maiden over |
maiden pink |
maiden speech |
maiden voyage |
maidenhair
| maidenhair berry
| maidenhair fern
| maidenhair spleenwort
| maidenhair tree
| maidenhead
maidenhair
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun maidenhair has 1 sense
- maidenhair(n = noun.plant) maidenhair fern - any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds; Array is a kind of fern
is a member of adiantum, genus adiantum
has particulars: adiantum capillus-veneris, common maidenhair, southern maidenhair, venus'-hair fern, venus maidenhair, venushair, adiantum pedatum, american maidenhair fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern, adiantum bellum, bermuda maidenhair, bermuda maidenhair fern, adiantum tenerum, brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern
CIDE DICTIONARY
maidenhair, n.
Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having very slender graceful stalks and delicate palmately branched fronds, especially (Adiantum pedatum ). It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
maidenhair, n. (in full maidenhair fern) a fern of the genus Adiantum, esp. A. capillus-veneris, with fine hairlike stalks and delicate fronds.
Idiom
maidenhair tree = GINKGO.
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