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hart's-tongue fern

NOUN
  1. tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya
  2. common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay
  3. Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds

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  • On the exposed limestone, crinkly yellow rock-rose and dark red helleborine; also hart's-tongue fern, rigid buckler-fern, hard shield-fern. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upwards through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
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