earth-tongue

1. 1.

   any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum

   Synonymsearthtongue

   Broaderfungus

   Part ofGeoglossum

Questions about earth-tongue

What does earth-tongue mean?

earth-tongue means "any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum".

How many syllables are in earth-tongue?

earth-tongue has 4 syllables: e-arth--ton-gue. The stress falls on "arth-".

What is another word for earth-tongue?

Close synonyms include earthtongue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is earth-tongue a common word?

earth-tongue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.