polypod

There he found Nicholas the fish, spread out in all his glory, like a polypod awash, or a basking turtle, or a well-fed calf of Proteus.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

I am not giving away any trade secrets when I tell you that we have tapes of practically every food, natural or synthetic, that has ever been eaten by mankind - right back to exotic items that you've never heard of, like fried squid, locusts in honey, peacocks 'tongues, Venu - sian polypod ....

The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962

I've now got in my bunky-hole (it is not quite six feet square) a polypod fern, a plate of moss, a pot of white hyacinths, and also catkins, violets, and mimosa!

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

Nicholas the fish, spread out in all his glory, like a polypod awash, or

Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

Before this study, only one polypod and two basal ferns had their complete chloroplast (cp) genome reported.

BioMed Central - Latest articles Lei Gao 2009

The Alsophila cp genome shares some unusual characteristics with the previously sequenced cp genome of the polypod fern Adiantum capillus-veneris, including the absence of 5 tRNA genes that exist in most other cp genomes.

BioMed Central - Latest articles Lei Gao 2009

The Alsophila cp genome is very similar to that of the polypod fern Adiantum in terms of gene content, gene order and GC content.

BioMed Central - Latest articles Lei Gao 2009

-- “It hath beene of later experience found also to be effectual against the falling sicknesse, that divers have been cured thereby; for after the taking of the _Decoct.manipulor. ii.c. polypod.quercin. contus. ℥ iv. in cerevisia_, they that have been troubled with it twenty-six years, and have fallen once in a weeke, or two or three times in a moneth, have not fallen once in fourteen or fifteen moneths, that is until the writing hereof.”

An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770

“living on land” is divisible into walking and flying, and walking is further divisible into quadruped, biped, and polypod.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas D. M. BALME 1968