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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 Dennstaedtiaceaeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS PTERIDIUM (noun)


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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