maidenhair fern

Questions about maidenhair fern

What does maidenhair fern mean?

maidenhair fern means "any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds".

What is another word for maidenhair fern?

Close synonyms include maidenhair. 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 maidenhair fern a common word?

maidenhair fern 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.