Definition of "polypody" []

• Any of various ferns of the widely distributed genus Polypodium, having simple or compound fronds, round sori arranged in one or more rows along the midrib, and creeping rootstocks. (noun)

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• "Farmsteads and hamlets are protected by old walls from which spleenwort and polypody ferns grow."
• "Foxgloves, bright polypody ferns and rushes thrive in the hollows of surface tin workings while wheel pits, settling tanks and buddles associated with the extraction of tin and china clay are masked by scrub, and the derelict structures colonised by spleenwort ferns and moss."
• "A hypertufa trough planter with leptinella, pearlwort and a native fern, polypody."