maidenhair fern

1. Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds (synset 113227715)
   is a type of: fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
   subtypes:

   • adiantum capillus-veneris, common maidenhair, southern maidenhair, venus maidenhair, venus'-hair fern, venushair - delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
   • adiantum pedatum, american maidenhair fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern - hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
   • adiantum bellum, bermuda maidenhair, bermuda maidenhair fern - delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock
   • adiantum tenerum, brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern - tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated
   belongs to: adiantum, genus adiantum - cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
   same as: maidenhair

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