golden polypody

Noun

• mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

• tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  common polypody , adder's fern , wall fern , golden maidenhair , sweet fern , Polypodium vulgare , serpent fern , rabbit's-foot fern , Phlebodium aureum , Polypodium aureum