deer's tongue

English

Noun

deer's tongue

1. A plant native to the southeastern US, , whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance resembling vanilla.

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2. An unrelated plant native to the northwestern US and western Canada, , which also has a vanilla-like fragrance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deer's tongue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)