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 

• ADDER'S TONGUE (noun)

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)