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rattlesnake fern

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rattlesnake fern

–noun
any of several American grape ferns, esp. Botrychium virginianium, having clusters of sporangia resembling the rattles of a rattlesnake.

Origin:
1805–15, Americanism
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rattlesnake fern

noun
American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle 
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