golden polypody Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
   Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; serpent fern; rabbit's-foot fern.
   
2. noun mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
   golden maidenhair; sweet fern; wall fern; common polypody; adder's fern; Polypodium vulgare.
   

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