bracken

brack·en  (brkn)

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.

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[Middle English braken, probably of Scandinavian origin; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.]

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bracken

Noun

1. a fern with large fronds

2. a clump of these ferns [Scandinavian]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bracken - fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions Pteridium esculentum fern - 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; cosmopolitan pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum, brake fern - 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

Translations

bracken [ˈbrækən] n → helecho

bracken [ˈbrækən] n → fougère f

bracken [ˈbrækən] n → Farn m

bracken [ˈbrækən] n → felce f