Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various ferns of the genus Adiantum, having purplish to black stalks, usually feathery fronds, and delicate fan-shaped leaflets with marginal sori.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See maidenhair.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
Etymologies
- From the fineness of its stems. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
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treeseed any of a genus (Adiantum) of ferns with delicate palmately branched fronds —called also maidenhair Jan 25, 2008