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PHLEBODIUM AUREUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Phlebodium aureum mean?
• PHLEBODIUM AUREUM (noun)
The noun PHLEBODIUM AUREUM has 1 sense:
1. tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
Familiarity information: PHLEBODIUM AUREUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
golden polypody; Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; rabbit's-foot fern; serpent fern
Hypernyms ("Phlebodium aureum" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Holonyms ("Phlebodium aureum" is a member of...):
genus Phlebodium; Phlebodium (chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori)
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