ADDER'S TONGUE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue

Synonyms:

adder's tongue; adder's tongue fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("adder'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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adder's tongue"):

Ophioglossum pendulum; ribbon fern (epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America)

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

genus Ophioglossum; Ophioglossum (the type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae)