PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pteridium aquilinum mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM (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 ("Pteridium aquilinum" 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 ("Pteridium aquilinum" is a member of...):

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