| Noun | 1. golden polypody - tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus PolypodiumPhlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum, rabbit's-foot fern, serpent fernfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesgenus Phlebodium, Phlebodium - chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori | | 2. golden polypody - mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asiaadder's fern, common polypody, golden maidenhair, Polypodium vulgare, sweet fern, wall fernpolypody - any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium |