adder's tongue

See also: adder's-tongue

English

adder's tongue fern
Ophioglossum vulgatum

adder's tongue lily
Erythronium americanum

adder's tongue (4)

Noun

adder's tongue (countable and uncountable, plural adder's tongues)

1. Any of several ferns in the genus Ophioglossum, whose spores are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

   Synonyms: serpent's tongue, snake's tongue

2. A lily in the genus Erythronium, other common names of which include fawn lily, trout lily and dog's tooth violet.
3. Hart's tongue (fern) (Asplenium scolopendrium, syn. Phyllitis scolopendrium).
4. (Chester) early-purple orchid, early spring orchis Orchis mascula

Hyponyms

• (Erythronium): trout lily, dog's-tooth violet

Translations

fern of the genus Ophioglossum

• Finnish: käärmeenkieli (fi)
• German: Natternzunge f
• Icelandic: naðurtunga (is) f
• Japanese: ハナワラビ属 (hanawarabi zoku)
• Polish: nasięźrzał (pl) m
• Russian: ужо́вник (ru) m (užóvnik)
• Welsh: tafod y neidr m

lily of the genus Erythronium — see trout lily

Asplenium scolopendrium — see hart's tongue

References

• “adder's tongue”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “adder's tongue”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3