PASTURE BRAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pasture brake mean? 

• PASTURE BRAKE (noun)
  The noun PASTURE BRAKE has 1 sense:

1. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

  Familiarity information: PASTURE BRAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTURE BRAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bracken; brake; pasture brake; Pteridium aquilinum

Hypernyms ("pasture brake" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("pasture brake" is a member of...):

genus Pteridium; Pteridium (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae)