maidenhair
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of maidenhair
Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at maiden, hair
Example Sentences
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Q: Can someone help resolve a problem I am having with my maidenhair ferns?
From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2023
Jianbin Yan, a plant physiologist at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences’s Agricultural Genomics Institute, and colleagues found similar parallels in a maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 22, 2022
And then, sure, like I like to take on a fun challenge now and again with a more difficult plant to care for — but I have never been successful keeping a maidenhair fern alive.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021
Walczak took me to see a clearing where he had planted a mass of New York ferns behind a single glade fern and a few Northern maidenhair ferns.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2015
Under the live oaks, shaded and dusky, the maidenhair flourished and gave a good smell, and under the mossy banks of the water courses whole clumps of five-fingered ferns and goldy-backs hung down.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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