brack·en (br k  n)n. 1. A widespread, often weedy fern (Pteridium aquilinum) having large, triangular, pinnately compound fronds and often forming dense thickets. 2. An area overgrown with this fern. [Middle English braken, probably of Scandinavian origin; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.] |
bracken [ˈbrækən]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called brake any of various large coarse ferns, esp Pteridium aquilinum, having large fronds with spore cases along the undersides and extensive underground stems
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a clump of any of these ferns
[of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish bräken, Danish bregne]
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| Noun | 1. |  bracken - fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regionsfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Pteridium, Pteridium - a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae |
| 2. |  bracken - large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitanfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Pteridium, Pteridium - a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae |
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