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PHLEBODIUM AUREUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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:
Hypernyms ("Phlebodium aureum" 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 ("Phlebodium aureum" is a member of...):
genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium (chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori)