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
• Syn: ↑common polypody, ↑adder's fern, ↑wall fern, ↑golden maidenhair, ↑golden polypody, ↑sweet fern
• Hypernyms: ↑polypody
Useful english dictionary. 2012.