noun
Meaning 1
A woman's pubic hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
maidenhair
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈmeɪdənhɛː/
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US: /ˈmeɪdənhɛəɹ/
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noun
Meaning 2
Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Either of two ericaceous plants: creeping snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula) or checkerberry (G. procumbens).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, countable, regional, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: maidenhair fern
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fern
Narrower terms: common maidenhair, Venushair, Venus'-hair fern, southern maidenhair, Venus maidenhair, Adiantum capillus-veneris, American maidenhair fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern, Adiantum pedatum, Bermuda maidenhair, Bermuda maidenhair fern, Adiantum bellum, brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern, Adiantum tenerum
History
Etymology
From maiden + hair.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كُزْبَرَة الْبِئْر (kuzbara l-biʔr) — fern
- Arabic: قزيبرة البير (qzībrat el-bīr) — fern
- Middle Armenian: ձարխոտ (jarxot) — fern
- Bulgarian: вене́рин ко́съм (venérin kósǎm) — fern
- Bulgarian: богоро́дичен ко́съм (bogoródičen kósǎm) — fern
- Bulgarian: адиантум (adiantum) — fern
- Catalan: falzilla — fern
- Catalan: capil·lera — fern
- Chinese Mandarin: 鐵線蕨 /铁线蕨 (tiěxiànjué) — fern
- Czech: netík — fern
- Dacian: phithophthethela — fern
- Dutch: venushaar — fern
- Finnish: neidonhiussaniainen — fern
- Finnish: neidonadiantumi — fern
- French: capillaire — fern
- French: adiante — fern
- German: Frauenhaarfarn — fern
- German: Frauenhaar — fern
- German: Venushaar — fern
- Greek: αδίαντο (adíanto) — fern
- Ancient Greek: ἀδίαντον (adíanton) — fern
- Ancient Greek: πολύτριχον (polútrikhon) — fern
- Hawaiian: ʻiwaʻiwa — fern
- Irish: cos dhubh — fern
- Irish: folt bé — fern
- Italian: capelvenere — fern
- Kazakh: шолпаншаш (şolpanşaş) — fern
- Korean: 공작고사리 (gongjakgosari) — fern
- Latin: adiantum — fern
- Latin: capillus Veneris — fern
- Maltese: tursin il-bir — fern
- Māori: makawe tapairu — fern
- Māori: huruhuru tapairu — fern
- Polish: niekropień — fern
- Polish: złotowłos — fern
- Portuguese: avenca — fern
- Romanian: părul-fetei — fern
- Russian: вене́рин во́лос (venérin vólos) — fern
- Russian: адиа́нтум (adiántum) — fern
- Serbo-Croatian: góspīn vlásak — fern
- Serbo-Croatian: adiantum — fern
- Slovak: venušin vlas — fern
- Slovak: adiantum — fern
- Slovene: venerini lāsci — fern
- Slovene: adiantum — fern
- Swedish: adiantumsläkte — fern
- Turkish: baldırıkara — fern
- Ukrainian: вене́рин во́лос (venéryn vólos) — fern
- Ukrainian: адиа́нтум (adyántum) — fern
- Ukrainian: адіант (adiant) — fern
- Volapük: ladiant — fern
- Welsh: gwallt y forwyn — fern
Real reading context