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Maidenhair
//ˈmeɪdənhɛəɹ// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A woman's pubic hair. poetic, uncountable
"He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into the bowl"
- 2 any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds wordnet
- 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 Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry. Canada, US, countable, regional, uncountable
Etymology
From maiden + hair.
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