WordNet
tongue fern
n. east Asian fern having fronds shaped like tongues; sometimes placed in genus Cyclophorus [syn: felt fern, Pyrrosia lingua, Cyclophorus lingua]
Usage examples of "tongue fern".
Thickly wooded hills stood above beck-threaded valley floors where bird's eye primula, hart's tongue fern, and pink foxglove peeped from stony crevices.
Hart's-tongue fern grew above it, and there was moss at the lip, and below it green, moist grass.