(a) The common polypody, Polypodium vulgare (chiefly historical in later use); (b) the royal fern, Osmunda regalis.

Originally: (more fully common polypody) the fern Polypodium vulgare agg., which has sparsely branched fronds with narrow, frequently undivided…

Originally: common polypody (polypody, n.1). Now more generally: any fern of the genus Polypodium or the family Polypodiaceae. Also polypod fern.

common polypody (see sense 1), esp. when growing on oak trees. Cf. oak fern, n. 1.

Originally: a polypody (also polypodium fern). Later also (in form Polypodium): a large and cosmopolitan genus of ferns of the family Polypodiaceae.

the common evergreen fern, Polypodium vulgare.

attributive and in other combinations, as brake-bush, brake-fern, brake-root; brake of the wall n. the common polypody.

common polypody (see sense 1).

A fern, Gymnocarpium dryopteris (family Woodsiaceae), having delicate tripinnate fronds and found in shady, esp. rocky or mountainous places in…

As the name of a plant. In full rabbit's foot fern. A tropical epiphytic American fern, Phlebodium aureum, often grown as an ornamental (so called…