PTERIDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pteridium mean? 

• PTERIDIUM (noun)
  The noun PTERIDIUM has 1 sense:

1. a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae

  Familiarity information: PTERIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PTERIDIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pteridium; Pteridium

Hypernyms ("Pteridium" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Pteridium"):

bracken; brake; pasture brake; Pteridium aquilinum (large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan)

bracken; Pteridium esculentum (fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions)

Holonyms ("Pteridium" is a member of...):

Dennstaedtiaceae; family Dennstaedtiaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)