Etymology

dog's tongue

Today it means: The plant hound's tongue. Full definition →

Middle English dogges-tonge
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromdogges-tonge
  2. English todaydog's tongue

From Middle English dogges-tonge. A variant of hound's tongue, which see.

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