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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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... back-door led into a long but narrow garden running along the road, but raised some feet above it; the bank was kept up by a rough stone wall crested with stuck-up snap-dragon and valerian, and faced with rosettes and disks and dills of houseleek, pennywort, and hart's-tongue. ...

— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore

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