Rattlesnake fern Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle
    Botrychium virginianum.

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  1. (Bot.), a common American fern (Botrychium Virginianum) having a triangular decompound frond and a long-stalked panicle of spore cases rising from the middle of the frond.

Webster 1913