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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 Africaplay

  Familiarity information: GRAY POLYPODY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRAY POLYPODY (noun)


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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