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ˈhart's-tongue
[A transl. of med.L. lingua cervi; so named from the shape of the long entire fronds: so Ger. hirschzunge, Da. hertstong, Fr. langue de cerf, etc.]
The common name of the fern Scolopendrium vulgare; also extended to other species of the genus; rarely applied to some other polypodiaceous ferns, as Olfersia cervina and Polypodium Singaporianum. So hart's-tongue fern.
c1325Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 162 Cerflange, hertis-tounge. c1350O.E. Med. Gloss. in Archæol. XXX. 409 Hertistonge, lyngua cervi. c1440Promp. Parv. 238/1 Hertys tongue, herbe, scolopendria, lingua cervi. a1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 103 Lingua ceruina..gall. cerflange, ang. herttonge. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 86 b, Hartis tunge..hath nether stalk sede nor floure. 1589Cogan Haven Health (1636) 179 Fumitory, Harts-tong..and such like cooling herbes. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 285 The hart's-tongue fern grows in bunches of long plain leaves. 1882Good Cheer 37 Glossy fronds of hartstongue were uncurling among the wet stones. |