maidenhair

A fern of the genus Adiantum, particularly A. Capillus-Veneris, a native of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, China, and Japan, and A. pedatum, a native of North America from Canada southward, Hindustan, Japan, and Manchuria.

A stuff in use for garments in the fourteenth century.

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.

Either of two species of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris.

Designating various types of moss or flowering plants.

Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry.

any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds