1. Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
   - serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum 
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
   - common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare

Type of: fern, polypody

Part of: genus Phlebodium, Phlebodium

Encyclopedia: Golden polypody

• self-locking
• self-love
• self-loving
• self-luminous
• self-made
• self-mortification
• self-moving
• self-opinionated
• self-organisation
• self-organization
• self-perpetuating
• self-pity
• self-pitying
• self-pollinated
• self-pollinating
• self-pollination
• self-portrait
• self-possessed
• self-possession
• self-praise
• self-preservation
• self-pride
• self-proclaimed
• self-produced
• self-propelled