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Webster 1913 Edition

Adiantum

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Adˊi-an′tum

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Noun.

[L., fr. Gr.

ἀδίαντον

, maidenhair;

ἀ

priv. +

διαίνειν

to wet.]

(Bot.)

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.