HyperDic: pteridium_aquilinum

English > 1 sense of the expression Pteridium aquilinum:
NOUNplantPteridium aquilinum, bracken, pasture brake, brakelarge coarse fern often several feet high
English > Pteridium aquilinum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaninglarge coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan.
Synonymsbracken, pasture brake, brake
Member ofPteridium, genus PteridiumA genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae
BroaderfernAny of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward
Spanishpteridium

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