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

• Ute
• utensil
• uterine
• uterine artery
• uterine cavity
• uterine cervix
• crown glass
• crown imperial
• crown jewel
• crown jewels
• Crown land
• crown lens
• crown monkey
• crown of thorns
• crown prince
• crown princess
• crown roast
• crown saw
• crown vetch
• crown wart
• crown-of-the-field
• crownbeard
• crowned
• crowned head
• crowning