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单词 maidenhair
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Definition of maidenhair in English:

maidenhair

(also maidenhair fern)
noun ˈmeɪd(ə)nhɛːˈmeɪdnˌhɛr
  • A chiefly tropical fern having slender-stalked fronds with round or wedge-shaped divided lobes.

    Genus Adiantum, family Adiantaceae: several species, in particular A. capillus-veneris of Eurasia and North America

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The 8-foot-deep porch is edged by a 12-foot-long garden bed, where Dalbok planted tall banana and palm trees to act as a backdrop and provide shade for more delicate plants like maidenhair ferns.
    • Towards the top of the track watch for maidenhair fern, golden ake ake, (which you may recognise as a popular hedge plant), a native myrtle with a nobbly trunk, a pigeonwood with orange berries in season, hebes, and a large leaved Broadleaf.
    • 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.
    • Others are maidenhair spleenwort, two kinds of polypody, and walking fern.
    • Running the length of the backyard is an elevated planting area, which the couple filled with woodland plants - vine maples, hellebores, and maidenhair ferns.
    • Although they don't flower, maidenhair ferns are one of the most popular indoor plants.
    • Southern maidenhair often hangs over the mouth of the springs, and watercress is common in the clear spring water.
    • There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern.
    • Finally, the maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris, which grows in moist shady places in Europe and N. America, has several uses.
    • Among the ferns are California polypody, maidenhair fern, and golden-back fern.
    • Species of the eastern deciduous forest are northern maidenhair, maidenhair spleenwort, and oak fern.
    • The foliage resembles that of a maidenhair fern.
    • Although they all are lush and green, there is quite a variety in their textures and sizes, everything from robust, six-foot-high ostrich ferns to dainty maidenhair ferns, with each leaflet looking like a miniature, green fan.
    • 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.
    • Walk through the prairie's first showing of pussytoes, puccoon, and bird's foot violets, walk through the tick-ridden grasses, walk through the wild phlox and unfurling ferns of maidenhair.
 
 

Definition of maidenhair in US English:

maidenhair

(also maidenhair fern)
nounˈmādnˌherˈmeɪdnˌhɛr
  • A chiefly tropical fern of delicate appearance, having slender-stalked fronds with round or wedge-shaped divided lobes.

    Genus Adiantum, family Adiantaceae: several species, in particular A. capillus-veneris of Eurasia and North America

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The foliage resembles that of a maidenhair fern.
    • Towards the top of the track watch for maidenhair fern, golden ake ake, (which you may recognise as a popular hedge plant), a native myrtle with a nobbly trunk, a pigeonwood with orange berries in season, hebes, and a large leaved Broadleaf.
    • 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.
    • There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern.
    • Species of the eastern deciduous forest are northern maidenhair, maidenhair spleenwort, and oak fern.
    • Others are maidenhair spleenwort, two kinds of polypody, and walking fern.
    • Walk through the prairie's first showing of pussytoes, puccoon, and bird's foot violets, walk through the tick-ridden grasses, walk through the wild phlox and unfurling ferns of maidenhair.
    • Although they all are lush and green, there is quite a variety in their textures and sizes, everything from robust, six-foot-high ostrich ferns to dainty maidenhair ferns, with each leaflet looking like a miniature, green fan.
    • Southern maidenhair often hangs over the mouth of the springs, and watercress is common in the clear spring water.
    • Running the length of the backyard is an elevated planting area, which the couple filled with woodland plants - vine maples, hellebores, and maidenhair ferns.
    • Finally, the maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris, which grows in moist shady places in Europe and N. America, has several uses.
    • Although they don't flower, maidenhair ferns are one of the most popular indoor plants.
    • The 8-foot-deep porch is edged by a 12-foot-long garden bed, where Dalbok planted tall banana and palm trees to act as a backdrop and provide shade for more delicate plants like maidenhair ferns.
    • Among the ferns are California polypody, maidenhair fern, and golden-back 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.
 
 
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