common polypody

1. 1.

   mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia

   Synonymsadder's fernwall ferngolden maidenhairgolden polypodysweet fernPolypodium vulgare

   Broaderpolypody

Questions about common polypody

What does common polypody mean?

common polypody means "mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia".

What is another word for common polypody?

Close synonyms include adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, sweet fern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common polypody a common word?

common polypody is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.