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maidenhair


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Maidenhair  \Maid"en*hair`\,  n.  (Bot.) 
  A  fern  of  the  genus  {Adiantum}  ({A.  pedatum}),  having  very 
  slender  graceful  stalks.  It  is  common  in  the  United  States, 
  and  is  sometimes  used  in  medicine.  The  name  is  also  applied 
  to  other  species  of  the  same  genus,  as  to  the  Venus-hair. 
 
  {Maiden  grass},  the  smaller  quaking  grass. 
 
  {Maiden  tree}.  See  {Ginkgo}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  maidenhair 
  n  :  any  of  various  small  to  large  terrestrial  ferns  of  the  genus 
  Adiantum  having  delicate  palmately  branched  fronds  [syn: 
  {maidenhair  fern}] 




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