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Noun: rattlesnake fern
  1. American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle
    "The rattlesnake fern's distinctive spore clusters rustled in the breeze";
    - Botrychium virginianum

Derived forms: rattlesnake ferns

Type of: grape fern

Encyclopedia: Rattlesnake fern