maidenhair
English Thesaurus
1. any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fern, |
| definition | : | any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | adiantum capillus-veneris, common maidenhair, southern maidenhair, venus maidenhair, venus'-hair fern, venushair, |
| definition | : | delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | adiantum pedatum, american maidenhair fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern, |
| definition | : | hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | adiantum bellum, bermuda maidenhair, bermuda maidenhair fern, |
| definition | : | delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | adiantum tenerum, brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern, |
| definition | : | tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | adiantum, genus adiantum, |
| definition | : | cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae (noun.plant) |
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