maidenhair

/meyd-n-hair/US // ˈmeɪd nˌhɛər //

女贞子,女贞花,女贞座,女贞女

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any fern of the genus Adiantum, the cultivated species of which have fine, glossy stalks and delicate, finely divided fronds.

Only think of her having some of the maidenhair and cape jessamine still in water, that we sent her so long ago.
It was fed from a spring from above, which flowed down a gully thickly festooned with maidenhair fern.
Some trailing maidenhair escaping from the paper caught in her dress, and broke off.
She decided that it was the flat, where the bunch of orchids and maidenhair had come and lived almost a week.
Adiantum, ad-i-an′tum, n. maidenhair, a large genus of ferns.