HyperDic: serpent_fern

English > 1 sense of the expression serpent fern:
NOUNplantserpent fern, golden polypody, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureumtropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds
English > serpent fern: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningTropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium.
Synonymsgolden polypody, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum
Member ofPhlebodium, genus Phlebodiumchiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori
BroaderfernAny of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward
SpanishPolypodium aureum

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