Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of cryptogamous plants, natural order Ophioglossaceæ, allied to the ferns.
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- noun grape fern; moonwort
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Examples
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Wagner, W.H. Jr. and Wagner, F.S. (1984). new nothospecies of Moonwort (Ophioglossaceae botrychium).
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Hildegarde's keen eyes roved among the green masses, seeking the different varieties, -- botrychium, lady-fern, delicate hart's-tongue; behind these, great nodding ostrich-ferns, bending their stately plumes over their lowlier sisters; beyond these again a tangle of brake running up into the woods.
Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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