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ADDER'S TONGUE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adder's tongue mean?
• ADDER'S TONGUE (noun)
The noun ADDER'S TONGUE has 1 sense:
1. ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
Familiarity information: ADDER'S TONGUE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
adder's tongue; adder's tongue fern
Hypernyms ("adder's tongue" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adder's tongue"):
Ophioglossum pendulum; ribbon fern (epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America)
Holonyms ("adder's tongue" is a member of...):
genus Ophioglossum; Ophioglossum (the type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae)
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