HART'S-TONGUE FERN

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

• HART'S-TONGUE FERN (noun)
  The noun HART'S-TONGUE FERN has 3 senses:

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

2. Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds

3. common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HART'S-TONGUE FERN (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 fern" 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 fern" 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 fern" is a member of...):

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cow-tongue fern; Florida strap fern; hart's-tongue fern

Hypernyms ("hart's-tongue fern" is a kind of...):

strap fern (fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves)