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GENUS PTERIDIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pteridium mean?
• GENUS PTERIDIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS PTERIDIUM has 1 sense:
1. a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS PTERIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pteridium; Pteridium
Hypernyms ("genus Pteridium" is a kind of...):
fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Pteridium" is a member of...):
Dennstaedtiaceae; family Dennstaedtiaceae (one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems)
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