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    PTERIDIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Pteridium; Pteridium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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