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Maidenhair vs Capillaire - What's the difference?

maidenhair | capillaire |

As nouns the difference between maidenhair and capillaire

is that maidenhair is either of two species of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially while capillaire is (archaic) a syrup prepared from the maidenhair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

maidenhair

English

(wikipedia maidenhair)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Either of two species of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially
  • * 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.
  • or the checkerberry.

    • Synonyms

    * (fern): maidenhair fern

    capillaire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A syrup prepared from the maidenhair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
  • (archaic) Any simple syrup flavoured with orange flowers.
    • (Webster 1913) ----