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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 maid·en·hair, maidenhair fern n. Bot. Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having very slender graceful stalks and delicate palmately branched fronds, especially  (Adiantum pedatum).  It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine.  The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Adiantum pedatum
      n : hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent
          recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
          [syn: American maidenhair fern, five-fingered
           maidenhair fern]