hart's-tongue

Questions about hart's-tongue

What does hart's-tongue mean?

hart's-tongue means "tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hart's-tongue?

hart's-tongue has 3 syllables and divides as hart'-s-ton-gue under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hart's-tongue?

Close synonyms include hart's-tongue fern, Olfersia cervina, Polybotrya cervina, Polybotria cervina, hart's-tongue fern. 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 hart's-tongue a common word?

hart's-tongue is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.