Word Meanings - ADDER'S-TONGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

Related words: (words related to ADDER\'S-TONGUE)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• SERPENTARIA
  The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
• YELLOW
  1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome
• PRODUCT
  1. To produce; to bring forward. "Producted to . . . examination." Foxe. 2. To lengthen out; to extend. He that doth much . . . products his mortality. Hackett. 3. To produce; to make. Holinshed.
• YELLOWBILL
  The American scoter.
• SERPENTIFORM
  Having the form of a serpent.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.