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GRAY POLYPODY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gray polypody mean?
• GRAY POLYPODY (noun)
The noun GRAY POLYPODY has 1 sense:
1. fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds greyish and scurfy below; Americas and South Africa
Familiarity information: GRAY POLYPODY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fern growing on rocks or tree trunks and having fronds greyish and scurfy below; Americas and South Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
gray polypody; grey polypody; Polypodium polypodioides; resurrection fern
Hypernyms ("gray polypody" is a kind of...):
polypody (any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium)
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