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Cosmopolitan genus of ferns maidenhair ferns
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adiantum
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n. The maidenhair fern and related ferns (of the genus ''Adiantum'')
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Adiantum , the maidenhair fern , is a genus of about 200 species of ferns in the Vittarioideae subfamily of the family Pteridaceae , though some researchers place it in its own family, Adiantaceae. The genus name comes from Greek , meaning "not wetting", ...
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Adiantum \Ad`i*an"tum\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, maidenhair; 'a priv. + ? to wet.] (Bot.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.
Usage examples of adiantum.
Tell me, O Darwin, shall we know on this side of the grave why or how the Adiantum Nigrum and Asplenium capillis Veneris, have reproduced themselves, or, to be more correct, have produced ghosts and fetches of themselves at the antipodes?
When he came back he bore with him beautiful bunches of ferns of many kinds-Hymenophyllum and Asplenium, portions of the fronds of the Dicksonia, the Adiantum, the Alsophila, excelsa, the Umbrella fern, the Acrostichurn and others.
In the interstices there used to be a great deal of Adiantum nigrum - black maidenhair, but it has disappeared.