| NOUN | plant | sweet fern, common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, 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 |
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| plant | sweet fern, Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia | deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers |
| 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, golden polypody, Polypodium vulgare | |
| Broader | polypody | Any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium |
| Meaning | deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers. | |
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| Synonyms | Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia | |
| Member of | Comptonia, genus Comptonia | One species |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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