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COMMON MAIDENHAIR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common maidenhair mean?
• COMMON MAIDENHAIR (noun)
The noun COMMON MAIDENHAIR has 1 sense:
1. delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
Familiarity information: COMMON MAIDENHAIR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("common 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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