Adiantum

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adiantum \Ad`i*an"tum\, n. [L., fr. Gr. 'adi`anton, maidenhair;
     'a priv. + diai`nein to wet.] (Bot.)
     A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair.
     Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Adiantum
       n : cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some
           classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or
           Adiantaceae [syn: {genus Adiantum}]