botrychium virginianum

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   American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle

   Synonymsrattlesnake fern

   Broadergrape fern

Questions about botrychium virginianum

What does botrychium virginianum mean?

botrychium virginianum means "American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle".

What is another word for botrychium virginianum?

Close synonyms include rattlesnake fern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is botrychium virginianum a common word?

botrychium virginianum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.