1. Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
   "The golden polypody was a popular choice for hanging baskets";
   - serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum
    
2. Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
   "golden polypody covered the old stone wall";
   - common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare

Type of: fern, polypody

Part of: genus Phlebodium, Phlebodium

Encyclopedia: Golden polypody