pteridium

English Thesaurus

1. a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fern genus,
definition	:	genera of ferns and fern allies (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	bracken, brake, pasture brake, pteridium aquilinum,
definition	:	large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	bracken, pteridium esculentum,
definition	:	fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	dennstaedtiaceae, family dennstaedtiaceae,
definition	:	one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems (noun.plant)