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maidenhair
CIDE DICTIONARY
maidenhair, n.
Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having very slender graceful stalks and delicate palmately branched fronds, especially (Adiantum pedatum ). 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
maidenhair, n. (in full maidenhair fern) a fern of the genus Adiantum, esp. A. capillus-veneris, with fine hairlike stalks and delicate fronds.
Idiom
maidenhair tree = GINKGO.
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