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Definition of Polypodium vulgare
1. Noun. Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia.
Generic synonyms: Polypody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polypodium Vulgare
Literary usage of Polypodium vulgare
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the County of Dublin by John D'Alton (1838)
"Among the furze, tormentilla offici- nalis, common tormentil; vicia cracca, tufted
vetch ; and on the old walls, polypodium vulgare, common polypody ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Polypodium vulgare. (XX) 3108. Son and a single sporangium of Polypodium vulgare.
(Sori about natural size.) t logical treatment; some of these genera, ..."
3. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe, Alexander Francis Lydon, Benjamin Fawcett (1867)
"... that it requires the knowledge of the Botanist to point out that these distinct
varieties belong to Polypodium vulgare. Amongst these may be mentioned ..."