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单词 small moonwort
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small moonwort
1. Originally (more fully †small moonwort, †lesser moonwort): a small fern, Botrychium lunaria (family Ophioglossaceae), which has pinnate or pinnately lobed sterile fronds with crescent- or fan-shaped segments. Later also: any member of the genus Botrychium. Also moonwort fern. Cf. lunary n.1 (b).
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a1425 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 39 [Asterion] asplenis, lunarie, monewort.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xciv. 136 This herbe is now called in Latine Lunaria, and Lunaria minor..in English Lunarie, or Moonewort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 329 Lunaria or small Moonewoort groweth vpon drie and barren mountaines and heathes.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 100 Horse that..Tread-vpon Moone-worke [sic] with their hollow heeles; Though lately shod, at night goe bare-foote home.
1651 J. French Art Distillation ii. 46 The leaves of..the lesser Moon~wort.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 489 Moonwort, which grows on dry pastures, has one naked stem, and one pinnate frond.
1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 138 The curious little fern moonwort.
1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 522 Our B[otrychium] Virginicum is a truly beautiful Moonwort and common in rich woods.
1956 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 83 261 Now it seems certain that B. minganense is the name which should be applied to the commonest of the three moonworts in the Biological Station area.
1976 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 59 204 An apparent near relative of the circumboreal and familiar Moonwort fern, Botrychium lunaria, is also amphitropical.
1991 Brittonia 43 124 His eye for such rarities as hybrid woodferns, critical species of moonworts, and gametophytes of clubmosses and firmosses was unmatched.
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