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Definition of Southern maidenhair
1. Noun. Delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan.
Exact synonyms: Adiantum Capillus-veneris, Common Maidenhair, Venus Maidenhair, Venus'-hair Fern, Venushair
Generic synonyms: Maidenhair, Maidenhair Fern
Generic synonyms: Maidenhair, Maidenhair Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Southern Maidenhair
Literary usage of Southern maidenhair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of Arizona by William Henry Robinson (1919)
"The gold and silver fern grows but a few inches high in the shade of rocks in
low canyons in the early spring, and the delicate southern maidenhair fern is ..."
2. Botanisches Zentralblatt: Referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1898)
"Heft IX/X. p.—194. Mit 2 Tafeln.) Hessey. Charles E., The southern maidenhair
Fern in the Black Hills of South ..."