Maidenhair

Definition: Maidenhair

Maidenhair

Noun

1. Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds.

Date "maidenhair" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Maidenhair

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Maidenhair (a fern, so-called from its hair-like stalks) never takes wet or moisture. "His skin is like the herb called true Maiden's hair, which never takes wet or moisture, but still keeps dry, though laid at the bottom of a river as long as you please. For this reason it is called Adiantos."- Rabelais: Pantagruel, iv. 24. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Maidenhair

Synonym: maidenhair fern (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Maidenhair

English words defined with "maidenhair": Adiantum, Adiantum capillus-veneris, American maidenhair fern ♦ Barbados maidenhair, Bermuda maidenhair, Bermuda maidenhair fern, brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern ♦ climbing maidenhair, climbing maidenhair fern, common maidenhair ♦ Farley maidenhair, Farley maidenhair fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern ♦ genus Adiantum, golden maidenhair ♦ maidenhair berry, maidenhair fern, maidenhair spleenwort, maidenhair tree ♦ southern maidenhair ♦ Venus maidenhair, Venushair, Venus'-hair fern. (references)

Etymologies containing "maidenhair": Adiantum ♦ Capillaire. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Maidenhair

Domain	Title
Books	Maidenhair Ferns in Cultivation (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Maidenhair

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Photo Album: Maidenhair

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Adiantum jordanii, commonly known as California Maidenhair Fern.Credit: Miles Dwan.		Medium shot of California maidenhair fern (Adiantum jordanii).Credit: Miles Dawn.
	Farshot of California maidenhair fern (Adiantum jordanii).Credit: Unknown.
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Usage Frequency: Maidenhair

"Maidenhair" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maidenhair" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Maidenhair

Expressions using "maidenhair": american maidenhair fern ♦ Barbados maidenhair ♦ Bermuda maidenhair ♦ Bermuda maidenhair fern ♦ brittle maidenhair ♦ brittle maidenhair fern ♦ climbing maidenhair ♦ climbing maidenhair fern ♦ common maidenhair ♦ Farley maidenhair ♦ Farley maidenhair fern ♦ golden maidenhair ♦ maidenhair berry ♦ maidenhair fern ♦ maidenhair spleenwort ♦ maidenhair tree ♦ southern maidenhair ♦ Venus maidenhair. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "maidenhair": maidenhair-trees.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Maidenhair

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
maidenhair fern	42
maidenhair	34
maidenhair tree	14
grass maidenhair	2
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Modern Translations: Maidenhair

Language		Translations for "maidenhair"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fierlis. (various references)

Arabic		‏شعري دقيق. (various references)

Bulgarian		богородичен косъм. (various references)

Danish		japansk ginkgo (ginkgo, maidenhair tree), ginkgo (ginkgo, maidenhair tree), canadisk venushaar (maidenhair fern). (various references)

Dutch		venushaar (maidenhair fern), haarmos, adiantum. (various references)

Finnish		venuksenhiussaniainen (maidenhair fern), neidonhiuspuu (ginkgo, maidenhair tree). (various references)

French		capillaire (maidenhair fern). (various references)

German		Frauenhaar (women's hair). (various references)

Greek		πολύτριχο. (various references)

Hungarian		vénuszhaj növény. (various references)

Italian		capelvenere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		銀杏 (gingko nut, gingko tree, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree), 公孫樹 (ginkgo, maidenhair tree). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いちょう (chief physician, curtain, foreign country, foreign court, gastrointestine, gingko tree, ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree, medical director, notification to authorities, stomach, transposition). (various references)

Manx		folt ny moidyn, doo-choshagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		aidenhairmay.(various references)

Portuguese		avenca. (various references)

Romanian		pãrul fetei. (various references)

Russian		адиантум. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		viline vlasi. (various references)

Spanish		culantrillo, cabello de venus. (various references)

Swedish		adiantum. (various references)

Turkish		baldırıkara out (maiden fern). (various references)

Ukranian		адіантум. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Maidenhair

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Adiantum, Adiantum pedatum, Ginkgo biloba. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Maidenhair

Derivations
	Words beginning with "maidenhair": maidenhairs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Maidenhair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mordechair. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Maidenhair

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-i-m-n-r"
	-2 letters: marinade, meridian.
	-3 letters: airhead, amidine, araneid, denarii, diamine, hadarim, handier, harmine, headman, herdman, inarmed, madeira.
	-4 letters: admire, aidman, aidmen, airman, airmen, amidin, anadem, anemia, aramid, daimen, damner, denari, dharma, dharna, diamin, dirham, haemin, haired, harden, harmed, harmin, hermai, hernia, hinder, maenad, maiden, marina, marine, median, medina, menhir, midair, minder, radian, rained, remain, remand, remind.
	-5 letters: aahed, adman, admen, ahead, aider, aimed, aimer, aired, amain, amend, amide, amine, amnia, anear, anima, anime, animi, arena, armed, daman, damar, deair, denar, denim, derma, dimer, dinar, diner, drain, drama, dream, hared, harem, heard, hemin, herma, hider, hired, ihram, imide, imine, inarm, indie, indri, irade, madre, maned, mania, maria, media, medii, menad, minae, mined, miner, mired, nadir, naiad, naira, named, namer, radii, ramen, ramie, ranid, redan, redia, reman, rimed.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-i-m-n-r"
	+1 letter: maidenhairs.
	+3 letters: archimandrite.
	+4 letters: archimandrites.
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