adder[s_tongue_fern (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *adder's tongue fern*:
NOUN	plant	adder's tongue fern, adder's tongue	ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue

English > *adder's tongue fern*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue.
Synonym	adder's tongue
Member of	Ophioglossum, genus Ophioglossum	The type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae
Narrower	ribbon fern, Ophioglossum pendulum	epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America
Broader	fern	Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward

HyperDic: adder[s_tongue_fern