| NOUN | plant | golden polypody, serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum | tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds |
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| plant | golden polypody, common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare | mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks / rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia |
| Meaning | Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium. | |
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| Synonyms | serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum | |
| Member of | Phlebodium, genus Phlebodium | chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori |
| Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
| Spanish | Polypodium aureum | |
| Meaning | mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks / rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia. | |
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| Synonyms | common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare | |
| Broader | polypody | Any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium |
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