HART'S-TONGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hart's-tongue mean? 

• HART'S-TONGUE (noun)
  The noun HART'S-TONGUE has 2 senses:

1. tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya

2. Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds

  Familiarity information: HART'S-TONGUE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HART'S-TONGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hart's-tongue; hart's-tongue fern; Olfersia cervina; Polybotria cervina; Polybotrya cervina

Hypernyms ("hart'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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asplenium scolopendrium; hart's-tongue; hart's-tongue fern; Phyllitis scolopendrium

Hypernyms ("hart'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)

Holonyms ("hart's-tongue" is a member of...):

Asplenium; genus Asplenium (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)