Definition of Southern maidenhair

1. Noun. Delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Southern Maidenhair

southern bog lemming
southern bottlenose whale
southern bottlenose whales
southern buckthorn
southern cypress
southern elephant seal
southern elephant seals
southern flounder
southern flying squirrel
southern harebell
southern hemisphere
southern lights
southern live oak
southern magnolia
southern maidenhair (current term)
southern porgy
southern red cedar
southern red oak
southern screamer
southern screamers
southern scup
southern spadefoot
southern spatterdock
southern vole
southern voles
southern white cedar
southern yellow pine
southernism
southernly

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 ..."

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