单词 | moon-fern |
释义 | moon-fernn. Now rare. Moonwort, the fern Botrychium lunaria. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > moonwort lunaryc1386 moonworta1425 May grapes1548 unshoe-the-horse1635 moon-fern1659 rattlesnake fern1814 1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 208 at Harts-tongue The common & finger, moone-ferne, small, and handed moon-ferne. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum (at cited word) Moon-fern, see Hart's-tongue. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 71 We saddled ouir naigis wi' the moon-fern leif, And rode fra Kilmerrin kirk. 1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 2 Braid moonfern now with mystic trifoly. 1881 Sat. Rev. No. 1325. 374 The genus botrychium, the moon-fern or lunary, to the magical powers of which several of the Elizabethan poets bear testimony. 1945 A. B. Jackson Step's Wayside & Woodland Ferns (new. ed.) 107 Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, in one of his poems alludes to it as Moon Fern. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1659 |
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