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Hart's-tongue

noun

Tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya. Synonyms: hart's-tongue fern, Olfersia cervina, Polybotria cervina, Polybotrya cervina.

Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds. Synonyms: Asplenium scolopendrium, hart's-tongue fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium.

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"Hart's-tongue" Quotes from Famous Books

... sweet savour, the dark indigo winking "blueys" or cornflowers, the spotted musk monkey-flowers, smelling like a village flower-show. They would all be drooping and sad. And it might be that the ferns would be dead—all but the hart's-tongue; which, though moisture-loving, can yet, like the athlete, train itself to endure and abide thirsty and unslaked. But the thought of their pain worked in ...

— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

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... sloping sharply to the sea, this narrow way between the hills gets all the sun, and on a fine summer's morning grows drowsy with the heat. The crimson and creamy-gold of the opening honeysuckle swings heavy with its own sweetness. The hart's-tongue ferns, matted all over the steep banks, hang down like the tongues of thirsty dogs. The bees blunder sleepily from flower to flower. The black and crimson butterflies take short flights and long panting rests. ...

— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham

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Words linked to "Hart's-tongue" : Asplenium, genus Asplenium, fern