pteris

1. Large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics;
   Sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae (synset 113234666)
   is a type of: fern genus - genera of ferns and fern allies
   member holonym:

   • brake - any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
   • pteris cretica - cultivated in many varieties as houseplants
   • pteris multifida, spider brake, spider fern - Asiatic fern introduced in America
   • pteris serrulata, ribbon fern, spider fern - fern of North Africa and Azores and Canary Islands
   belongs to: family pteridaceae, pteridaceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided
   same as: genus pteris

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