maidenhair spleenwort

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   small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds

   SynonymsAsplenium trichomanes

   Broaderspleenwort

Questions about maidenhair spleenwort

What does maidenhair spleenwort mean?

maidenhair spleenwort means "small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds".

What is another word for maidenhair spleenwort?

Close synonyms include Asplenium trichomanes. 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 spleenwort a common word?

maidenhair spleenwort 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.