NOUN | plant | Adiantum tenerum, brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern | tropical American fern with broad pinnae |
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Meaning | Tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated. | |
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Synonyms | brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern | |
Narrower | Farley maidenhair, Farley maidenhair fern, Barbados maidenhair, glory fern, Adiantum tenerum farleyense | named for a country house in Barbados where it was discovered |
Broader | maidenhair, maidenhair fern | Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds |
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