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moonwort
[ moon-wurt, -wawrt ]
noun
- any fern of the genus Botrychium, especially B. lunaria, a rare fern having fronds with crescent-shaped leaflets.
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Moonwort has (or perhaps had) a miraculous effect on iron, with power to open locks or unshoe horses.
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Soldanel, sol′da-nel, n. a plant of the genus Soldanella, of the order Primulace—the blue moonwort.
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I have the wild rosehip, and the flat shield of the moonwort, and a pea-pod, and more whose names I know not.
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