Polypode

Pol`y`pode


n.1.(Bot.) A plant of the genus Polypodium; polypody.
1.(Zool.) An animal having many feet; a myriapod.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in periodicals archive
noXinoSiov 'polypode') compounded by saggi 'much, many' + regla 'foot'(traditionally).
Don't panic if you sever one as it will probably regenerate, but do try to avoid doing dry shade, such as hart's tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, Polystichum setiferum, the soft shield fern and the common polypody Polypode vulgare.
However, some of our native evergreen ferns will do very well in dry shade, such as hart's tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, Polystichum setiferum, the soft shield fern and the common polypody Polypode vulgare.
He brought order to the matter by regrouping the plants in three classes, divided into genera, and by giving them Latin names: the first class included Fougeres, Hemionites, Polypodes, Langues-de-cerf, and Capillaires, the second Arum & Dracontium and Saururus, and the third Perploques (climbing plants).
Asertia, the ichthyologist of Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey (1818), "maintained the origin of all things from water, and insisted that the polypodes were the first of animated things, and that from their round bodies and many-shooting arms, the Hindoos had taken their gods, the most ancient of deities" (chap.
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