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maidenhairs

maidenhairs is the plural 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).

Questions about maidenhairs

What is maidenhairs the plural of?
Maidenhairs is the plural of maidenhair.

Words near maidenhairs in the dictionary

  1. maidenhair spleenworts
  2. maidenhair tree
  3. maidenhair trees
  4. maidenhair vine
  5. maidenhair vines
  6. maidenhairs
  7. maidenhairtree
  8. maidenhead
  9. maidenheads
  10. maidenhood
  11. maidenhoods

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