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
The church stands above the road, and beside it a large old tree, whose lower branches are so abundantly covered with polypody that the fronds hang like long fringes from either side of each branch.
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote
Hiera piera six drachms, two and a half drachms each of black hellebore and polypody; a drachm and a half each of agaric, lapis lazuli, sal Indiae, coloquintida, mix them and make two pills.
He plucked a few of the ferns growing in the spray and discoursed on them, comparing them with the common European polypody.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The polypody ferns, being evergreen, look very well too, and will thrive facing all four points of the compass.
From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle
Ribbonlike spikemoss and delicate polypodies crept neatly over rock faces.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2019
It grows just it the spray of a waterfall—this and this; they are polypodies.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
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
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
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
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