rabbit's-foot fern

/fʊt fərn/
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Definitions of rabbit's-foot fern
  1. noun
    tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
    synonyms: Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum, golden polypody, serpent fern
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    fern
    any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
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