maidenhair : Idioms & Phrases

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american maidenhair fern

  • noun hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
    American maidenhair fern; Adiantum pedatum.
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barbados maidenhair

  • noun named for a country house in Barbados where it was discovered
    Adiantum tenerum farleyense; Barbados maidenhair; glory fern; Farley maidenhair.
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bermuda maidenhair

  • noun delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock
    Adiantum bellum; Bermuda maidenhair.
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bermuda maidenhair fern

  • noun delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock
    Adiantum bellum; Bermuda maidenhair.
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brittle maidenhair

  • noun tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated
    Adiantum tenerum; brittle maidenhair.
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brittle maidenhair fern

  • noun tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated
    Adiantum tenerum; brittle maidenhair.
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climbing maidenhair

  • noun tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida
    climbing maidenhair; Lygodium microphyllum; snake fern.
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climbing maidenhair fern

  • noun tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida
    climbing maidenhair; Lygodium microphyllum; snake fern.
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common maidenhair

  • noun delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
    Venushair; Venus'-hair fern; Adiantum capillus-veneris; common maidenhair; southern maidenhair.
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farley maidenhair

  • noun named for a country house in Barbados where it was discovered
    Adiantum tenerum farleyense; Barbados maidenhair; glory fern; Farley maidenhair.
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farley maidenhair fern

  • noun named for a country house in Barbados where it was discovered
    Adiantum tenerum farleyense; Barbados maidenhair; glory fern; Farley maidenhair.
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five-fingered maidenhair fern

  • noun hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
    American maidenhair fern; Adiantum pedatum.
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golden maidenhair

  • noun mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
    sweet fern; wall fern; golden polypody; common polypody; adder's fern; Polypodium vulgare.
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Maiden grass

  • the smaller quaking grass.
Webster 1913

Maiden tree

  • . See Ginkgo.
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maidenhair berry

  • noun slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds
    Gaultheria hispidula; creeping snowberry; moxie plum.
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maidenhair fern

  • noun any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
    maidenhair.
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maidenhair spleenwort

  • noun small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds
    Asplenium trichomanes.
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maidenhair tree

  • noun deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree
    ginkgo; Ginkgo biloba; gingko.
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southern maidenhair

  • noun delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
    Venushair; Venus'-hair fern; Adiantum capillus-veneris; common maidenhair; southern maidenhair.
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venus maidenhair

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