NOUN | plant | Polypodium aureum, golden polypody, serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum | tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds |
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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. | |
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Synonyms | golden polypody, serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium 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 |
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