What's the difference between lunary and moonwort?
Lunary
Definition:
(a.) Lunar.
(n.) The herb moonwort or "honesty".
(n.) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.
Example Sentences:
(1) The toxins in the muscle, skin and liver of the puffer fish Lagocephalus lunaris lunaris and those in the skin and liver of another puffer fish Fugu niphobles were purified by successive column chromatography on activated charcoal, Bio-Gel P-2 and Bio-Rex 70 and analyzed by electrophoresis and thin layer chromatography.
(2) Among of those insects the richest fauna was found on Copris lunaris, Carabus coriaceus, C. hortensis and Musca domestica.
(3) Although, regardless of the tissues and species, tetrodotoxin was predominant and accounted for more than 90% of the total toxins, the following minor toxins were newly detected; toxin A and toxin B in L. lunaris lunaris and toxin C in F. niphobles.
Moonwort
Definition:
(n.) The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.
(n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.