[syn: common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
golden polypody
n 1: tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated
for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds;
sometimes placed in genus Polypodium [syn: golden
polypody, serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern,
Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum]
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 [syn: common
polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair,
golden polypody, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare]