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ADDERS-TONGUES

Specialty Definition: Adders-tongue

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Adders-tongues are plants of the genus Ophioglossum, which means "snake-tongue". Ophioglossum is in the family Ophioglossaceae, in the order Ophioglossales, a small group of vascular plants. The family includes another genus, Cheiroglossa ("hand-tongue").
Adders-tongues are so-called because the spore stalks are thought to resember snakes' tongues. Each plant typically sends up a small, undivided leaf blade with netted venation, and the spore stalk forks from the leaf stalk, terminating in sporangia which are partially concealed within a sructure with slitted sides. The plant grows from a central, budding, fleshy structure with fleshy, radiating roots. When the leaf blade is present, there is not always a spore stalk present, and the plants do not always send up a leaf, sometimes going for a year to a period of years living only under the soil, nourished by association with soil fungi.
Adders-tongues have the highest chromosome counts of any known plant.
Also see:
Grape-fern
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adders-tongue."

Anagrams: ADDERS-TONGUES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-n-o-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: guardedness.
	-3 letters: entourages, noseguards, outdressed, sandgrouse, soundstage.
	-4 letters: anestrous, assurgent, astounded, dangerous, darndests, darnedest, datedness, degaussed, degausser, denatured, denatures, denudates, derogated, derogates, desugared, deuterons, dragonets, dungarees, durnedest, earstones, engrossed, entourage, estragons, estranged, estranges, estrogens, greatness, guerdoned, noseguard, nutsedges, outearned, outgassed, outranged, outranges, renegados, resonated, resonates, resounded, sauntered, sauternes, sederunts, sergeants, stegosaur, sturgeons, transuded.
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Alternative Orthography: ADDERS-TONGUES

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 44 45 52 53 2D 54 4F 4E 47 55 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 01000100 01000101 01010010 01010011 00101101 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0044 0045 0052 0053 002D 0054 004F 004E 0047 0055 0045 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3538383952531554494841553953

INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography

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