grey polypody

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   fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds greyish and scurfy below; Americas and South Africa

   Synonymsgray polypodyresurrection fernPolypodium polypodioides

   Broaderpolypody

Questions about grey polypody

What does grey polypody mean?

grey polypody means "fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds greyish and scurfy below; Americas and South Africa".

What is another word for grey polypody?

Close synonyms include gray polypody, resurrection fern, Polypodium polypodioides. 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 grey polypody a common word?

grey 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.