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MAIDENHAIR FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
Synonyms:
maidenhair; maidenhair fern
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("maidenhair fern" 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 fern"):
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 fern" 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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