adiantum pedatum

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   hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes

   SynonymsAmerican maidenhair fernfive-fingered maidenhair fern

   Broadermaidenhair

Questions about adiantum pedatum

What does adiantum pedatum mean?

adiantum pedatum means "hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes".

What is another word for adiantum pedatum?

Close synonyms include American maidenhair fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adiantum pedatum a common word?

adiantum pedatum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.