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

1 sense of serpent fern

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)