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Definition of Rattlesnake fern
1. Noun. American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattlesnake Fern
Literary usage of Rattlesnake fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know the Ferns: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of Our by Frances Theodora Parsons (1899)
"On our rambles through the woods we are more likely to encounter the Rattlesnake
Fern than any other member of the Botrychium group. ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"It is called rattlesnake fern from the fact of its growing ill places where this
venomous reptile is usually found. The other species of Botrychium are ..."
3. Ferns of the Dells of the Wisconsin Riverby Ruth Marshall by Ruth Marshall (1910)
"The common name, rattlesnake fern, probably originated in in the fancied resemblance
of its stems of sporangia to the rattles of the snake. ..."
4. C.E. Hobbs' Botanical Hand-book: Of Common Local, English, Botanical and by Charles E. Hobbs (1876)
"... Indian olibanum, Arabian frankincense, Black cohosh, tt tt rattlesnake fern
... Moonwort, rattlesnake fern, Mexican tea, tt tt Oak of Jerusalem, ..."
5. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"PM — To rattlesnake fern Swamp. I hear before I start the distant mutterings of
thunder in the northwest, ... rattlesnake fern just done. I make haste home, ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1895)
"Goldie's Fern. Shady woods ; not frequent. A. angustifolium Michx. Bank of
Missouri ; several places. Asplenium, Spleenwort. Botrychium, rattlesnake fern ..."
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