POLYPODY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does polypody mean? 

• POLYPODY (noun)
  The noun POLYPODY has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYPODY (noun)

Meaning:

Any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "polypody"):

licorice fern; Polypodium glycyrrhiza (fern having rootstock of a sweetish flavor)

gray polypody; grey polypody; Polypodium polypodioides; resurrection fern (fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds greyish and scurfy below; Americas and South Africa)

coast polypody; leatherleaf; leathery polypody; Polypodium scouleri (stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib)

American wall fern; Polypodium virgianum; rock brake; rock polypody (chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia)

adder's fern; common polypody; golden maidenhair; golden polypody; Polypodium vulgare; sweet fern; wall fern (mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia)

Holonyms ("polypody" is a member of...):

genus Polypodium; Polypodium (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori)