genus Pteridium

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Noun

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genus Pteridium - a genus of ferns belonging to the family DennstaedtiaceaePteridiumfern genus - genera of ferns and fern alliesDennstaedtiaceae, family Dennstaedtiaceae - one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systemspasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum, bracken, brake - large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitanbracken, Pteridium esculentum - fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions