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Polypodium

noun
1.
A genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori.  Synonym: genus Polypodium.



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"Polypodium" Quotes from Famous Books



... [Barometz. l. 284. Polypodium Barometz. Tartarian Lamb. Clandestine Marriage. This species of Fern is a native of China, with a decumbent root, thick, and every where covered with the most soft and dense wool, intensely yellow. ...
— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin
... young professor of botany, "you follow a road between two walls of rocks of immense height; they reach a perpendicular elevation of five or six hundred feet, and are hung with wild plants, the mountain basil (thymus alpinus), ferus (polypodium), the whortleberry (vitis idoea), ground ivy, and other climbing ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian


Words linked to "Polypodium" :   family Polypodiaceae, polypody, Polypodiaceae, fern genus


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