
GOLDEN POLYPODY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
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- [n] mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
- [n] tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
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| Synonyms: | | adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum, Polypodium vulgare, rabbit's-foot fern, serpent fern, sweet fern, wall fern |
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| See Also: | | fern, genus Phlebodium, Phlebodium, polypody | |
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