NOUN | plant | Pteridium aquilinum, bracken, pasture brake, brake | large coarse fern often several feet high |
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Meaning | large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan. | |
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Synonyms | bracken, pasture brake, brake | |
Member of | Pteridium, genus Pteridium | A genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae |
Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
Spanish | pteridium |
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