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Noun

moonwort ‎(plural moonworts)

1. A small fern, Botrychium lunaria (lesser moonwort); later, any member of the genus. [from 15th c.]
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 194:

     Moonwort is an herb which they say will open locks, and unshoe such horses as tread upon it.

2. (now US, Britain regional) Honesty, Lunaria annua (greater moonwort). [from 16th c.]

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