Definition of Common moonwort

1. Noun. Of America and Eurasia and Australia.

Exact synonyms: Botrychium Lunaria, Moonwort
Generic synonyms: Grape Fern

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Moonwort

common mallow
common man
common marigold
common marmoset
common marmosets
common matrimony vine
common measure
common men
common meter
common migraine
common milkwort
common minnow
common minnows
common mood
common moonseed
common moonwort (current term)
common morel
common morning glory
common mosquito
common mugwort
common mullein
common multiple
common multiples
common murre
common myrtle
common nail
common nails
common name
common names
common nardoo

Literary usage of Common moonwort

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1849)
"The common moonwort is another elegant fern which grows on open places, flourishing on hilly pastures and wide heaths, almost throughout our island. ..."

2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1830)
"common moonwort. Stalk with a single pinnate leaf : sheathed at the base, bearing a leaf about the middle, and terminating in a twice compound spike. ..."

3. The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities by Walter WOOD (1887)
"common moonwort (Botrychium Lunaria) ; Largo Links. Brittle Bladder Fern (Cystopteris fragilis) ; Airdrie Woods. ..."

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