Any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium

Usage examples of polypody.

Tongue, the Maidenhair, the common Polypody, the Spleenwort, and the Wall Rue.

Common Polypody, and stands, possibly, in the fern code, for Our Men, or something of that sort.

The leaves of the Polypody when burnt furnish a large proportion of carbonate of Potash.

There grows in Tartary a singular polypody Fern, of which the hairy foot is easily made to simulate in form a small sheep.

We must not forget the Polypody, which delights to creep amongst the trees and bushes of a lane, and looks very fresh in June, keeping its fronds till some sharp frost brings them off.

It took the name of Polypody from its jagged leaves, upon which the seeds or spores appear in bright orange spots.

They conferred solemnly together, took her pulse, looked at her eyes, held a phial of her water to the light, and concluded that she was of a melancholic disposition, and should take senna and polypody to purge her head, heart and lung of the evil humours, promote mirth, and enliven the habit of the body.

The leaves of Polypody when burnt furnish a large proportion of carbonate of potash.

The Common Polypody is a common Fern in sheltered places, on shady hedge-banks, and on roots and stumps of trees, moist rocks and old walls.