[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]