Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun golden_polypody

2 senses of golden polypody

Sense 1
golden polypody, serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum -- (tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium)
       => fern -- (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Sense 2
common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare -- (mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia)
       => polypody -- (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)