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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Polypodium Vulgare

Polyodon
Polyodon spathula
Polyodontidae
Polypedates
Polypedatidae
Polypheme
Polyphemus
Polyplax
Polypodiaceae
Polypodiales
Polypodium aureum
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Polypodium polypodioides
Polypodium scouleri
Polypodium virgianum
Polypodium vulgare (current term)
Polyporus frondosus
Polyporus squamosus
Polyporus tenuiculus
Polyprion
Polyprion americanus
Polysphondylium
Polystichum
Polystichum acrostichoides
Polystichum aculeatum
Polystichum adiantiformis
Polystichum braunii
Polystichum lonchitis
Polystichum scopulinum
Polystichum setiferum

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 ..."

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