| NOUN | plant | grape fern | a fern of the genus Botrychium having a fertile frond bearing small grapelike clusters of spore cases |
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| Meaning | A fern of the genus Botrychium having a fertile frond bearing small grapelike clusters of spore cases. | |
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| Member of | Botrychium, genus Botrychium | grape fern |
| Narrower | daisyleaf grape fern, daisy-leaved grape fern, Botrychium matricariifolium | Of North America and Eurasia |
| leathery grape fern, Botrychium multifidum | European fern with leathery and sparsely hairy fronds | |
| moonwort, common moonwort, Botrychium lunaria | Of America and Eurasia and Australia | |
| rattlesnake fern, Botrychium virginianum | American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle | |
| Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
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