1. (noun)golden polypody, serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium Synonyms: golden maidenhair, sweetfern, adder's fern, golden polypody, wallfern, rabbit's-foot fern, commonpolypody, serpentfern