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Maidenhair fern

noun

Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds. Synonym: maidenhair.

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... icicles to be seen, six feet in length; and yet on either side were camellias and tea-trees covered with red and white blossoms, orange-trees, laden with fruit; gold-fish swimming about in ponds, overhung with maidenhair fern, besides pteris and hothouse ferns, shaded by bamboos, palms, and castor-oil plants. The order of vegetation seems to be as much reversed as everything else in this strange country. In England all those plants would ...

— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey

... varieties in its component arrangement. It may be low and flat, like a floral mat, in the middle of the table, or it may be a lofty epergne, or an inter-lacing of delicate vine-wreathed arches, or a single basket of feathery maidenhair fern—in fact, anything that is pretty and which the inspiration of the moment may suggest. In early autumn, in country homes or in suburban villas, nothing is more effective than masses of golden-rod and purple asters, gathered by the ...

— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton

... all the accessories to make a dinner party go off well. The large dining-room was a long, low, octagonal apartment, with a small conservatory opening out at the lower end. There were numerous small alcoves in the wall, and in the recesses of each of these were huge pots of maidenhair fern. ...

— Marie Gourdon - A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence • Maud Ogilvy

Words linked to "Maidenhair fern" : brittle maidenhair, Adiantum capillus-veneris, Venushair, Adiantum bellum, common maidenhair, Adiantum pedatum, Adiantum tenerum, genus Adiantum, Venus'-hair fern, Bermuda maidenhair, Adiantum, southern maidenhair, Venus maidenhair, fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern