COMMON MAIDENHAIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common maidenhair mean? 

• COMMON MAIDENHAIR (noun)
  The noun COMMON MAIDENHAIR has 1 sense:

1. delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON MAIDENHAIR (noun)

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Meaning:

Delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Adiantum capillus-veneris; common maidenhair; southern maidenhair; Venus'-hair fern; Venus maidenhair; Venushair

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

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