VENUS MAIDENHAIR

Pronunciation (US):

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Meaning:

Delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan

Synonyms:

Adiantum capillus-veneris; common maidenhair; southern maidenhair; Venus'-hair fern; Venus maidenhair; Venushair

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Nouns denoting plants

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

maidenhair; maidenhair fern (any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds)

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