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Polypodium

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Pol´y`po`di`um
n.1.(Bot.) A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.
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Noun1.Polypodium - a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked soriPolypodium - a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae and having rounded naked sori
genus Polypodium
fern genus - genera of ferns and fern allies
family Polypodiaceae, Polypodiaceae - ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae)
polypody - any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium
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