Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hart's-tongue_fern

3 senses of hart's-tongue fern

Sense 1
hart's-tongue, hart's-tongue fern, Olfersia cervina, Polybotrya cervina, Polybotria cervina -- (tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Sense 2
hart's-tongue, hart's-tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, Phyllitis scolopendrium -- (Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Sense 3
Florida strap fern, cow-tongue fern, hart's-tongue fern -- (common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay)
       => strap fern -- (fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves)