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bracken

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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.

[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]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.brackenbracken - fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions
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.brackenbracken - large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
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] Nhelecho m
bracken [ˈbrækən] n (= plants) areas of bracken → zones fpl de fougères
bracken
nAdlerfarn m
bracken [ˈbrækn] n (plant) → felce f; (area of bracken) → felci pl
bracken [ˈbrækn] n (plant) → felce f; (area of bracken) → felci pl


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(for no reason that I can tell) to go through with my adventure; and when the first came alongside of me, I rose up from the bracken and asked him the way to Aucharn.
The grass was short and green, and there were clothes-props cut from bracken stems, with lines of plaited rushes, and a heap of tiny clothes pins--but no pocket-handkerchiefs!
Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.
 
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