noun
grape fern; moonwort
• Syn: ↑genus Botrychium
• Hypernyms: ↑fern genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ophioglossaceae, ↑family Ophioglossaceae
• Member Meronyms: ↑grape fern
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\\bō.ˈtrikēəm\ nounUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek botrychos stalk of a bunch of grapes (from botrys bunch of grapes) + New Latin -ium; from the grapelike cluster of sporangia
: a small widely distributed genus of low fleshy ferns (family Ophioglossaceae) comprising the grape ferns and having a lobed or compound sterile leaf and sporophyll bearing distinct sporangia in spikes or panicles
Useful english dictionary. 2012.