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maidenhair fern

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maid·en·hair fern   (mād'n-hâr')   
n.  Any of various ferns of the genus Adiantum, having purplish to black stalks, usually feathery fronds, and delicate fan-shaped leaflets with marginal sori.

[From the fineness of its stems.]
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maidenhair fern

noun
any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds [syn: maidenhair
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