maidenhair (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *maidenhair*:
NOUN	plant	maidenhair, maidenhair fern	any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds

English > *maidenhair*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds.
Synonym	maidenhair fern
Member of	Adiantum, genus Adiantum	cosmopolitan genus of ferns
Narrower	American maidenhair fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern, Adiantum pedatum	Hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
	Bermuda maidenhair, Bermuda maidenhair fern, Adiantum bellum	Delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock / rootstock
	brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern, Adiantum tenerum	Tropical American fern with broad pinnae
	common maidenhair, Venushair, Venus'-hair fern, southern maidenhair, Venus maidenhair, Adiantum capillus-veneris	Delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks
Broader	fern	Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward
Spanish	culantrillo

HyperDic: maidenhair