Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various ferns of the genus Adiantum, having delicate feathery fronds with slender dark stalks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
maidenhair .
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- noun Any of several ferns, of the genus
Adiantum , having delicatepalmately branched fronds
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- noun any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the fine stalks of its fronds or its masses of fine root hairs.]
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treeseed commented on the word maidenhair fern
any of a genus (Adiantum) of ferns with delicate palmately branched fronds —called also maidenhair
January 25, 2008