maidenhair

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From maiden +‎ hair.

maidenhair (countable and uncountable, plural maidenhairs)

(uncountable) a woman's pubic hair
Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 178:
  Our common Maidenhair does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...].
Designating various types of moss or flowering plants.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 318:
  The ‘maidenhair’ in maidenhair moss, for instance, does not refer to the hair on the maiden's head.
(Canada, US, now regional) Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry.

fern

Arabic: كُزْبَرَة الْبِئْر‎ f (kuzbara l-biʾr)
Moroccan Arabic: قزيبرة البير‎ (qzībrat el-bīr)
Armenian:
Middle Armenian: ձարխոտ (jarxot)
Bulgarian: вене́рин ко́съм m (venérin kósǎm), богоро́дичен ко́съм m (bogoródičen kósǎm), адиантум m (adiantum)
Czech: netík m
Dacian: phithophthethela
Finnish: neidonhiussaniainen, neidonadiantumi
French: capillaire (fr) f, adiante (fr) m
German: Frauenhaarfarn (de) m, Frauenhaar n, Venushaar (de) n
Greek:
Ancient: ἀδίαντον n (adíanton), πολύτριχον n (polútrikhon)
Hawaiian: ʻiwaʻiwa
Irish: cos dhubh f, folt bé m
Italian: capelvenere m