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GOLDEN POLYPODY

Dictionary entry overview: What does golden polypody mean?

• GOLDEN POLYPODY (noun)
The noun GOLDEN POLYPODY has 2 senses:

1. tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
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

Familiarity information: GOLDEN POLYPODY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GOLDEN POLYPODY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

golden polypody; Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; rabbit's-foot fern; serpent fern

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)

Sense 2

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

adder's fern; wall fern; sweet fern; Polypodium vulgare; golden maidenhair; common polypody; golden polypody

Hypernyms ("golden polypody" is a kind of...):

polypody (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)

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