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hart's-tongue
[ hahrts-tuhng ]
noun
- a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
hart's-tongue
noun
- an evergreen Eurasian fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, with narrow undivided fronds bearing rows of sori: family Polypodiaceae
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hart's-tongue1
Example Sentences
This was a wide highway, somewhat indefinite as to its edges, which were fringed irregularly with hart's-tongue and other ferns, or clumped with low brambles bearing abundant promise of a future blackberry harvest.
The Lieutenant's peril, Bonne's suspense, the Abbess--all were forgotten until the moon rose above the trees and flung a chequered light on the dark moss and hart's-tongue and harebells about the lovers' feet.
The sound of running water and the brilliant green of the grass, as well as the masses of long hart's-tongue ferns falling abundantly from the churchyard wall, all tell of perpetual moisture.
She liked to look thus into that deep dark hole, with its damp walls clothed with the long green hart's-tongue that had betrayed her.
The banks were green with masses of beautiful hart's-tongue ferns, and all nature seemed alive and stirring and thinking of spring.
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