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MAIDENHAIR

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Meaning:

Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds

Synonyms:

maidenhair; maidenhair fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("maidenhair" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maidenhair"):

Adiantum capillus-veneris; common maidenhair; southern maidenhair; Venus'-hair fern; Venus maidenhair; Venushair (delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan)

Adiantum pedatum; American maidenhair fern; five-fingered maidenhair fern (hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes)

Adiantum bellum; Bermuda maidenhair; Bermuda maidenhair fern (delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock)

Adiantum tenerum; brittle maidenhair; brittle maidenhair fern (tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated)

Holonyms ("maidenhair" is a member of...):

Adiantum; genus Adiantum (cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

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