moonwort

English
Botrychium lunaria
Lunaria annua

Etymology

From moon +‎ wort.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmuːnwəːt/

Noun

moonwort (plural moonworts)

  1. A small fern, Botrychium lunaria (lesser moonwort); later, any member of the genus. [from 15th c.]
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 194:
      Moonwort is an herb which they say will open locks, and unshoe such horses as tread upon it.
  2. (now US, Britain regional) Lunaria annua (greater moonwort); also known as Honesty and Actual Honesty. [from 16th c.]

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