NOUN
- any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
How To Use maidenhair fern In A Sentence
- Although they don't flower, maidenhair ferns are one of the most popular indoor plants.
- The ginkgo is also called the maidenhair tree, and gets this name from the resemblance of the leaves to the fronds of the maidenhair fern. Times, Sunday Times
- The name 'maidenhair' was given to them because the leaves somewhat resemble the leaflets of the maidenhair fern. Times, Sunday Times
- A larger species of maidenhair fern is often grown in glasshouses and conservatories. Times, Sunday Times
- There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern.
- A tributary feeds in and has two stone bridges; the one for infrequent cars is frizzy with maidenhair ferns, two yards away its predecessor for packhorses is painted with lichens.
- Beneath the mixed hardwood and redwood forest canopy, the light is dim, broken in places into shafts that highlight clusters of maidenhair ferns and lush beds of redwood sorrel, a cloverlike ground cover.
- Running the length of the backyard is an elevated planting area, which the couple filled with woodland plants - vine maples, hellebores, and maidenhair ferns.
- Lacy maidenhair ferns fiddle around close to the stems of terrifying arisaemas. Times, Sunday Times
- Among the ferns are California polypody, maidenhair fern, and golden-back fern.