adiantum
noun
adiantum is a noun meaning “The maidenhair fern and related ferns (of the genus Adiantum)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-D-I-A-N-T-U-M, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of adiantum is adiantums or adianta.
What does adiantum mean?
noun
- 1
The maidenhair fern and related ferns (of the genus Adiantum)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of adiantum
- adiantums plural
- adianta plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is adiantum?
Adiantum appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does adiantum come from?
From the genus name Adiantum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).