PASTURE BRAKE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

Synonyms:

bracken; brake; pasture brake; Pteridium aquilinum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pasture brake" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("pasture brake" is a member of...):

genus Pteridium; Pteridium (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae)