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    MAIDENHAIR

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched frondsplay

    Synonyms:

    maidenhair; maidenhair fern

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    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("maidenhair" is a kind of...):

    fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maidenhair"):

    Adiantum capillus-veneris; common maidenhair; southern maidenhair; Venus'-hair fern; Venus maidenhair; Venushair (delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan)

    Adiantum pedatum; American maidenhair fern; five-fingered maidenhair fern (hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes)

    Adiantum bellum; Bermuda maidenhair; Bermuda maidenhair fern (delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock)

    Adiantum tenerum; brittle maidenhair; brittle maidenhair fern (tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated)

    Holonyms ("maidenhair" is a member of...):

    Adiantum; genus Adiantum (cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)

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