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Definition of Common moonwort
1. Noun. Of America and Eurasia and Australia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Moonwort
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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