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Definition of Common maidenhair
1. Noun. Delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan.
Generic synonyms: Maidenhair, Maidenhair Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Maidenhair
Literary usage of Common maidenhair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Where to Find Ferns: With a Special Chapter on the Ferns Round London by Francis George Heath (1885)
"It occurs at various altitudes up to two thousand five hundred feet above the
sea-level. XLV.—THE common maidenhair SPLEENWORT. ..."
2. The fern paradise: a plea for the culture of ferns by Francis George Heath (1878)
"Peer over the side of the bridge and you will find little tufts of that beautiful
Fern, the common maidenhair Spleenwort; also the tiny Wall Rue, ..."
3. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1830)
"common maidenhair Spleenwort. Frond linear, pinnate : leaflets broadly oblong or
roundish, crenate ; stem and shaft coloured, shining, keeled beneath. ..."
4. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"The infusion of the leaves of the Common MAIDENHAIR, ASPLENIUM trichomanoides is
still medical in country situations. The mari- nwm, or SEA FERN, ..."
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