Meanings
plural maidenhair ferns
- Maidenhair (Adiantum spp.).
Hissao looked at the bottle with the polite attention another son might bestow on his mother's favourite maidenhair fern, or on a pear tree […].
1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 533
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
maidenhair fern. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maidenhair%20fern
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