AMERICAN MAIDENHAIR FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American maidenhair fern mean? 

• AMERICAN MAIDENHAIR FERN (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN MAIDENHAIR FERN has 1 sense:

1. hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN MAIDENHAIR FERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN MAIDENHAIR FERN (noun)

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Meaning:

Hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Adiantum pedatum; American maidenhair fern; five-fingered maidenhair fern

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

maidenhair; maidenhair fern (any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds)