hart's-tongue

American  

[hahrts-tuhng] / ˈhɑrtsˌtʌŋ /

Or harts-tongue

noun

1. a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.

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hart's-tongue British  

noun

1. an evergreen Eurasian fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, with narrow undivided fronds bearing rows of sori: family Polypodiaceae

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Etymology

Origin of hart's-tongue

First recorded in 1275–1325, hart's-tongue is from Middle English hertis tonge. See hart, 's ¹, tongue

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Example Sentences

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hart's-tongue

This well bubbles up under a low vault scooped in the bank by the footpath and hung with hart's-tongue ferns.

From The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Flowers of every hue spread a brilliant carpet beneath the horses' hoofs; the hart's-tongue, the manamana-o-hina, the papa-mako and the parasol-plant, with mosses of every description and myriads of ferns, covered the sward.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

A little way on they found a tiny spring, bubbling out of the hillside and falling into a rough stone basin surrounded by draggled hart's-tongue ferns, now hardly green at all.

From The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. (Edith) Nesbit

At the top a stone railway bridge, the interstices facing the sea full of parsley fern, wild maidenhair, hart's-tongue, and a beautiful species unknown to me.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley

We discovered a stream in a wood with hart's-tongue fern growing along its banks.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman

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