golden polypody

Noun
  1. Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds;
    Sometimes placed in genus Polypodium (synset 113197946)
    is a type of: fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
    belongs to: genus phlebodium, phlebodium - chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori
    same as: phlebodium aureum, polypodium aureum, rabbit's-foot fern, serpent fern
  2. Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia (synset 113194780)
    is a type of: polypody - any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium
    same as: adder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, polypodium vulgare, sweet fern, wall fern

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