Venus hair fern
noun
variants
or Venus' hair fern
or less commonly Venus hair
plural Venus hair ferns or Venus' hair ferns also Venus hairs
: a maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) that grows chiefly on moist calcareous rocks and has delicate fronds with fan-shaped, lobed pinnae (see pinna sense 2) : southern maidenhair fern
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