Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Adiantum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Adiantum \Ad`i*an"tum\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, maidenhair; 'a priv.
+ ? to wet.] (Bot.)
A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair.
Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Adiantum
n : cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some
classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or
Adiantaceae [syn: {Adiantum}, {genus Adiantum}]
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