BOTRYCHIUM VIRGINIANUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Botrychium virginianum mean? 

• BOTRYCHIUM VIRGINIANUM (noun)
  The noun BOTRYCHIUM VIRGINIANUM has 1 sense:

1. American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle

  Familiarity information: BOTRYCHIUM VIRGINIANUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTRYCHIUM VIRGINIANUM (noun)

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Meaning:

American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Botrychium virginianum; rattlesnake fern

Hypernyms ("Botrychium virginianum" is a kind of...):

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