2. Adjective. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the ''Polypoda''. ¹
3. Noun. (zoology) An animal with many feet ¹
4. Noun. (botany) Any fern of the family ''Polypodiaceae'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polypod
1. a many-footed organism [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polypod
Literary usage of Polypod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Linnean Fern Bulletin by Willard Nelson Clute, Linnaean Fern Chapter (1893)
"... we find them as plentiful as any of the others. This is especially true of
three relatives of the common polypody. polypod- FIG. 1—BEECH FERN. ..."
2. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"2 P. vulgäre L. COMMON polypod. Frond deeply pinnatifid, smooth; sega. ... L.
TERNATE polypod. Frond tomate, bipinnate; branche* of the frond spreading, ..."
3. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1862)
"332, a common form, with deeper and narrower segments. polypod. appendiculatum,
Wall. Cat. n. 349, almost identical with the latter. ..."
4. Franconia Stories by Jacob Abbott (1878)
"... keeping time by their music, with the jolting of the horse. OLD polypod.
The song was this: " High and low, Fast and. slow, Over the hills away wo go. ..."
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