What it is: The extract of the leaves of the ginkgo plant (also known as the maidenhair tree). From Wordnik.com. [Can Supplements Ease Menopause Symptoms?] Reference
Centre loop stitch and maidenhair in buttonhole stitch. From Wordnik.com. [Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor] Reference
I like the Himalayan maidenhair for its delicate beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks] Reference
Ah, the maidenhair ferns planted in the trough are peeking out. From Wordnik.com. [Monday Report « Fairegarden] Reference
Where they bed down together, our maidenhair, your night-dresses. From Wordnik.com. [IN A CONVENT CEMETERY] Reference
As buttonholes, backed with a frond of maidenhair, they are charming. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
I always turn green when I see that someone can grow maidenhair ferns. From Wordnik.com. [Green Leaf Day « Fairegarden] Reference
Can you tell that the wind is blowing these maidenhair ferns in the trough planter?. From Wordnik.com. [Movement « Fairegarden] Reference
M.H. S. would be glad to know if maidenhair ferns need much water, and how often they ought to be watered. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
On the steep incline above the spring grew tiny maidenhair ferns, while higher up were larger ferns and brakes. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VIII] Reference
It was only a corsage bouquet, but the violets, arranged with a few fronds of maidenhair, were delightfully fresh. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Wood maidenhair ferns and pink garden roses, tiny ferns scattered over the tablecloth, and rose-colored candle shades. From Wordnik.com. [Entertaining Made Easy] Reference
They started their horses, but a dog-tooth violet, shouldering amongst the maidenhair, caught her eye and made her rein in again. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXIV] Reference
And all about them were ferns, a score of varieties, from the tiny gold-backs and maidenhair to huge brakes six and eight feet tall. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXIV] Reference
Behind the huts the densely-wooded hill drops sharply to where a stream of good and pure water riots among the maidenhair and mosses. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
When Rebekka falls ill, Lina treats her with a mixture of herbs: devil's bit, mugwort, Saint-John's-wort, maidenhair, and periwinkle. From Wordnik.com. [A Mercy by Toni Morrison: Questions] Reference
And all the tiny tiny fernfoils trembled of maidenhair. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into the bowl. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
They laid the skin out on the trampled maidenhair, and contemplated it with silent satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
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