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Definition of Maidenhair spleenwort
1. Noun. Small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maidenhair Spleenwort
Literary usage of Maidenhair spleenwort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Ferns: Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions, with the Needful ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1861)
"ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES, L. Common or maidenhair spleenwort. ASPLENIUM Trichomanes;
small; caudex short, thick, densely fibrous; stipites one to four or five ..."
2. Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"The small spleenwort (Asplenium parvulum) is a southern species which careless
collectors might gather for the maidenhair spleenwort or perhaps the ebony ..."
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