Hypertext Webster Gateway: "maidenhair"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maidenhair \Maid"en*hair`\, n. (Bot.)
A fern of the genus {Adiantum} ({A. pedatum}), having very
slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States,
and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied
to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.
{Maiden grass}, the smaller quaking grass.
{Maiden tree}. See {Ginkgo}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
maidenhair
n : any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus
Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds [syn:
{maidenhair fern}]
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