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

• phlebodium aureum
• polypodium aureum
• rabbit's-foot fern
• serpent fern

2. (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

• adder's fern
• common polypody
• golden maidenhair
• polypodium vulgare
• sweet fern
• wall fern

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

• fern

2. (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

• polypody

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

• genus phlebodium
• phlebodium