moonwort Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun of America and Eurasia and Australia
    Botrychium lunaria; common moonwort.

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Moon"wort` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (a) The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty. (b) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.

Webster 1913