five-fingered maidenhair fern

Definitions of five-fingered maidenhair fern
  1. noun
    hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
    synonyms: Adiantum pedatum, American maidenhair fern
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    maidenhair, maidenhair fern
    any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
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