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

Example Sentences

Endive, succory, lacture, violet, clary, Liverwort, marigold, sorrel, hart's-tongue, and sage: Pennyroyal, purslane, bugloss, and boràge, With many very good herbs, mo than I do name.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Upon the banks hart's-tongue was coming up fresh and green, and the early orchis was in flower.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

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 Nesbit, E. (Edith)

The forget-me-nots and the hart’s-tongue, the beeches and the firs, listened to the singing.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

Grey-veined ivy trails along, here and there is a frond of hart's-tongue fern, though withered at the tip, and greenish grey lichen grows on the exposed stumps of trees.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard