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Adder's tongue

noun

Ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue. Synonym: adder's tongue fern.

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... adder's tongue Date collected, May 16th, 1908 Dog tooth violet Botanical name Erythronium Americanum REMARKS: John Burroughs Family Lilies suggests that the name Where found Rockaway Valley near be changed either to Beaver Brook fawn lily because ...

— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

... Lamia? What for Lycius? What for the sage, old Apollonius? Upon her aching forehead be there hung The leaves of willow and of adder's tongue; And for the youth, quick, let us strip for him The thyrsus, that his watching eyes may swim Into forgetfulness; and, for the sage, Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage War on his temples. Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? 230 There was an awful ...

— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats

Words linked to "Adder's tongue" : genus Ophioglossum, fern, Ophioglossum pendulum, Ophioglossum, ribbon fern