单词 | adder's tongue fern |
释义 | > as lemmasadder's tongue fern 2. Any of various small ferns of the genus Ophioglossum or (more widely) the family Ophioglossaceae, esp. O. vulgatum, typically having a single oval sterile frond and a spore-bearing spike, which together are thought to resemble the mouth and tongue of a snake. Also more fully adder's tongue fern. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > adder's tongue adder's tongue1548 serpent's tongue1578 Ophioglossum1583 adder's spear1714 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.iij Lingus serpentina groweth in many places in England. It may be called in Greek Ophioglosson, in englishe Adders tonge. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 135 Adders tonge is an herbe of a maruelous strange nature. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 327 Adders toong groweth in moist medowes throughout most parts of Englande. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer (ed. 2) 114 Take Rue and Adder's-Tongue, stamp them together, and squeeze out the Juice. 1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 40 The leaves of willow and of adder's tongue. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 183 Two species of adders'-tongue (ophioglossum) are found in Guernsey. 1923 L. Abrams Illustr. Flora Pacific States (1940) I. 2 Ophioglossum vulgatum L. Adder's-tongue. 1948 Times 11 May 7/2 I have discovered another, much larger, colony of adder's tongue,..the numerous plants most unfernlike, but perhaps more resembling one-leafed orchids. 1981 Castanea 46 311 Adder's tongue ferns, Ophioglossum, are notoriously difficult taxonomically. 2008 Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Features section) 5 The rare least and lesser adder's-tongue ferns. < as lemmas |
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