Maidenhair

//ˈmeɪdənhɛəɹ// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A woman's pubic hair. poetic, uncountable

    "He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into the bowl"

  2. 2
    any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds wordnet
  3. 3
    Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris. countable, uncountable

    "Our common Maidenhair does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...]."

  4. 4
    Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry. Canada, US, countable, regional, uncountable

Synonyms

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maidenhair fernbushmaidenhair fernmingepubic hair

Example

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"He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into the bowl"

Etymology

From maiden + hair.

Related phrases

climbing maidenhair fernmaidenhair mossmaidenhair spleenwortmaidenhair treemaidenhair vinenorthern maidenhairpubic hair

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