ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Adiantum capillus-veneris mean? 

• ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS (noun)
  The noun ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS has 1 sense:

1. delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan

  Familiarity information: ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("Adiantum capillus-veneris" is a kind of...):

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