maidenhair

Meanings

Plural: maidenhairs

Noun

• any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
• A woman's pubic hair.
• Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris.
• Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry.

Synonyms

maidenhair fern