WordNet
common maidenhair
n. delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan [syn: Venushair, Venus'-hair fern, southern maidenhair, Venus maidenhair, Adiantum capillus-veneris]
Usage examples of "common maidenhair".
A tea derived from our Common Maidenhair, a simple little fern, common on old walls, with long, simply pinnate fronds, their sori arranged on the back in oblique lines, has also demulcent effect.