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Definition of Golden maidenhair
1. Noun. Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia.
Generic synonyms: Polypody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golden Maidenhair
Literary usage of Golden maidenhair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"... it is gathered in October and November, the barren Locks, and golden maidenhair.'
Newman, British Ferns, p. 112. fronds being rejected It is called by ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"... collecting it in Herefordshire as a specific against [hooping-cough] : it is
gathered in October and November, the barren Locks, and golden maidenhair. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Fairholt—golden maidenhair, a moss, Polytrichum commune, sometimes made into
brushes and mats. maidenhair-grass, ». See Brisa. maidenhair-tree ..."
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