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| a fern, Polypodium aureum, of tropical America, having a brown, scaly rootstock and green or deep bluish-green fronds. |
| golden polypody | |
noun | |
| 1. | tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium |
| 2. | 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] |