RATTLESNAKE FERN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle

Synonyms:

Botrychium virginianum; rattlesnake fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rattlesnake fern" is a kind of...):

grape fern (a fern of the genus Botrychium having a fertile frond bearing small grapelike clusters of spore cases)

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