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Webster 1913 Edition
Polypody
Pol′y-poˊdy
,Noun.
(Bot.)
Any plant of the genus
Polypodium
. Webster 1828 Edition
Polypody
POLYP'ODY
,Noun.
A plant of the genus Polypodium, of the order of Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in roundish points, scattered over the inferior disk of the frons or leaf. There are numerous species, of which the most remarkable is the common male fern.
Definition 2024
polypody
polypody
English
Noun
polypody (plural polypodies)
- (botany) Any of many ferns of the genus Polypodium, especially common polypody.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.2.ii:
- Polypodie and epithyme are, without all exceptions, gentle purgers of melancholy […].
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 226:
- If the humour be otherwise choose your Polypody accordingly.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.2.ii:
Translations
any fern of the genus Polypodium
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