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    ADDER'S TONGUE FERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongueplay

    Synonyms:

    adder's tongue; adder's tongue fern

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("adder's tongue fern" is a kind of...):

    fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adder's tongue fern"):

    Ophioglossum pendulum; ribbon fern (epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America)

    Holonyms ("adder's tongue fern" is a member of...):

    genus Ophioglossum; Ophioglossum (the type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae)

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