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maiden-hair

maiden-hair is the alternative spelling of maidenhair.

Meaning of maidenhair

Noun

maidenhair (countable and uncountable, plural maidenhairs)

  1. (poetic, uncountable) A woman's pubic hair.
    • He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into the bowl1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
  2. Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris.
    • Our common Maidenhair does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...].1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 178
    Synonyms:
    maidenhair fern
  3. (Canada, US, regional) Either of two ericaceous plants: creeping snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula) or checkerberry (G. procumbens).

Forms of maiden-hair

pluralmaiden-hairs

Questions about maiden-hair

What is maiden-hair the alternative spelling of?
Maiden-hair is the alternative spelling of maidenhair.

Words near maiden-hair in the dictionary

  1. maiden's blush
  2. maiden's honesty
  3. Maiden's Tower
  4. maiden-auntish
  5. maiden-auntishness
  6. maiden-hair
  7. maiden-hairs
  8. Maidencreek
  9. maidenhair
  10. maidenhair fern
  11. maidenhair ferns

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