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GOLDEN POLYPODY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
Synonyms:
adder's fern; common polypody; golden maidenhair; golden polypody; Polypodium vulgare; sweet fern; wall fern
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("golden polypody" is a kind of...):
polypody (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
Synonyms:
golden polypody; Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; rabbit's-foot fern; serpent fern
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("golden polypody" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Holonyms ("golden polypody" is a member of...):
genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium (chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori)
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