maidenhair

名词 n.
/ˈmeɪdənhɛː/    /ˈmeɪdənhɛəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman's pubic hair. poetic,uncountable
    — He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into the bowl
  2. Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris. countable,uncountable
    — Our common Maidenhair does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...].
  3. Either of two ericaceous plants: creeping snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula) or checkerberry (G. procumbens). Canada,US,countable,regional,uncountable

词形变化

maidenhairs plural maiden-hair alternative

词源

From maiden + hair.
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