Crossword-Solution: MOONWORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moonwort | n. | The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty. |
| Moonwort | n. | Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “MOONWORT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BOTRYCHIUM | 1 answer |
| HONESTY plant | 1 answer |
| LUNARY | 1 answer |
| type of fern with crescent-shaped leaflets | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOONWORT (5)
The moonwort is supposed to be a very supernatural plant, and to have the power of opening locks if you place a leaf of it in the keyhole.
The name "Osmund" is thought to be derived from _os_, the mouth, or _os_, bone, and _mundare_, to cleanse, or from _gross mond kraut_, the Greater Moonwort; but others refer it to Saint Osmund wading a river, whilst bearing the Christ on his shoulders.
Moonwort has (or perhaps _had_) a miraculous effect on iron, with power to open locks or unshoe horses.
The Botrychium Lunaria (moonwort) and Ophioglossum (adder’s tongue) are found within 300 yards of the Baths (occasionally intermittent for a season); the Trichomanes (English maidenhair) grows in one solitary place on the inner walls of a closed well, though entirely unknown anywhere else for many miles round.
Four kinds of maidenhair, always light and graceful and attractive, are found; and of ferns common to Europe, _Osmunda regalis,_ the Royal fern of Europe, and the European moonwort and alder's-tongue ferns.