WordNet
golden polypody
n. tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium [syn: serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum]
mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia [syn: common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare]