moonwort

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English

Botrychium lunaria
Lunaria annua

Etymology

From moon +‎ wort.

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Noun

moonwort (plural moonworts)

  1. A small fern, Botrychium lunaria (lesser moonwort); later, any member of the genus.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 194:
      Moonwort is an herb which they say will open locks, and unshoe such horses as tread upon it.
  2. (now US, UK regional) Lunaria annua (greater moonwort); also known as honesty and annual honesty.

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