polypody
Americannoun
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polypodies
plural
noun
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any of various ferns of the genus Polypodium, esp P. vulgare, having deeply divided leaves and round naked sori: family Polypodiaceae
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any fern of the family Polypodiaceae, all having opaque leaves that are divided in most species
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Etymology
Origin of polypody
1400–50; late Middle English polypodye < Latin polypodion < Greek polypódion (> New Latin Polypodium ); see poly-, -pod, -ium
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I learned that the roots of the polypody do a great impression of licorice, and that Scotch pine is also called “Finnish rosemary.”
From Washington Post
Max looked up at the mouldering walls, with their crevices dotted with patches of polypody and ruta muraria, velvety moss, and flaunting golden sun ragwort, and wondered whether the place was ever attacked.
From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn
As these are to be split up for masonry, the experiment of transferring the polypody is no sin, though it savours somewhat of the process of skin-grafting.
From The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright
"Take the stinking oil drawn out of polypody of the oak by a retort, mixed with turpentine and hive-honey, and anoint your bait therewith, and it will doubtless draw the fish to it."
From The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
Redpad pattered up this to its source; and about six feet from the ground, half hidden by polypody ferns, found a cleft in the limestone.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by M. D. Haviland
Ribbonlike spikemoss and delicate polypodies crept neatly over rock faces.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2019
Their stipes are not jointed to the root stock, nor are their sori at the ends of the veins as in the polypodies.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
The beech ferns are often classed with the polypodies, because, like them, they have no indusium; but in other ways they are more akin to the wood ferns.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
Often called "Limestone Polypody," the beech ferns having formerly been classed with the polypodies.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
It grows just it the spray of a waterfall—this and this; they are polypodies.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
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