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moonwort|ˈmuːnwɜːt|
[f. moon n.1 + wort n., after med.L. lūnāria lunary n.1, Du. maankruid, G. mondkraut.]
1. The fern Botrychium Lunaria = lunary n. b. Also small moonwort or lesser moonwort (= old Bot. name Lunaria minor).
1578Lyte Dodoens i. xciv. 136 This herbe is now called in Latine Lunaria, and Lunaria minor..in English Lunarie, or Moonewort. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 763 Horse, that..Tread upon Moon-wort with their hollow heels; Though lately shod, at night goe bare-foot home. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxv. 329 Lunaria or small Moone⁓woort groweth vpon dire and barren mountaines and heathes. 1651French Distill. ii. 46 The leaves of..the lesser Moon⁓wort. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxxii. (1794) 489 Moon⁓wort, which grows on dry pastures, has one naked stem, and one pinnate frond. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 138 The curious little fern moonwort.
2. The plant Honesty, Lunaria biennis; = lunary n. a. Also great moonwort. ? Obs.
1611Cotgr., Lunaire majeur; ou grande lunaire. Great Moonewort, Pennie-flower... Honestie. 1656W. Coles Art of Simpling 37 The seed of Bulbonack resembles the Moon, which is therefore called Great Moonwort. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxiii. (1794) 320 The brilliant whiteness of these silicles has occasioned this plant [sc. Honesty] to be called White Sattin: and from the shape of them it is named Lunaria and Moonwort.
†3. = madwort, Marrubium Alysson. Obs.
1597,1611[see madwort 1]. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 216 Mad-wort or Moon-wort..in Latine Alyssum or Lunaria.
4. The tree-sorrel, Rumex Lunaria.
1697Phil. Trans. XIX. 435 A Tree-Sorrel from the Canaries, which is no other than the Magicians Moon-wort of the Arabians in Lobel. 1866Treas. Bot.
†5. blue moonwort: a plant of Switzerland, Soldanella alpina, having circular leaves. Obs.
1629Parkinson Parad. 234 Soldanella Alpina. Mountaine Soldanella or blew Moonewort. |