Usually means: Fern with delicate, fan-shaped leaves.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word maidenhair:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. maidenhair: Merriam-Webster
  2. maidenhair: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maidenhair: Collins English Dictionary
  4. maidenhair: Vocabulary.com
  5. Maidenhair, maidenhair: Wordnik
  6. maidenhair: Wiktionary
  7. maidenhair: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. maidenhair: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. maidenhair: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. maidenhair: Dictionary.com
  11. Maidenhair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Maidenhair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. maidenhair: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. maidenhair: Rhymezone
  15. Maidenhair: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. maidenhair: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. maidenhair: FreeDictionary.org
  18. maidenhair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. maidenhair: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maidenhair: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. maidenhair: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, poetic) A woman's pubic hair.
noun:  Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris.
noun:  (Canada, US, now regional) Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry.

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