"adder's tongue" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: adder's tongues [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: serpent's tongue, snake's tongue Translations (fern of the genus Ophioglossum): addertong [feminine] (Dutch), käärmeenkieli (Finnish), Natternzunge [feminine] (German), naðurtunga [feminine] (Icelandic), ハナワラビ属 (hanawarabi zoku) (Japanese), nasięźrzał [masculine] (Polish), ужо́вник (užóvnik) [masculine] (Russian), yılandili (Turkish), tafod y neidr [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. A lily in the genus Erythronium, other common names of which include fawn lily, trout lily and dog's tooth violet. Tags: countable, uncountable Hyponyms (Erythronium): trout lily, dog's-tooth violet
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  3. Hart's tongue (fern) (Asplenium scolopendrium, syn. Phyllitis scolopendrium). Tags: countable, uncountable
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  4. (Chester) early-purple orchid, early spring orchis Orchis mascula Tags: countable, uncountable
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.