bracken

[ brak-uhn ]

/ ˈbræk ən /

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noun

a large fern or brake, especially Pteridium aquilinum.

a cluster or thicket of such ferns; an area overgrown with ferns and shrubs.

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Origin of bracken

1275–1325; Middle English braken<Scandinavian; compare Swedish bräken fern, Norwegian brake juniper

OTHER WORDS FROM bracken

brackened, adjective

Words nearby bracken

brachytherapy, brachyuran, brachyurous, bracing, braciola, bracken, bracket, bracket clock, bracket creep, bracket foot, bracket fungus

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How to use bracken in a sentence

The indoor bracken might be a tad high maintenance for beginner plant parents, but a little love goes a long way.
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Apart from a moose carcass and a trail overgrown with bracken ferns, there was little to see.
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She moves slyly among the bracken, and her exquisite scent serves to guide her unerringly as she works up wind.
The Chequers|James Runciman

She curled herself up in the bracken, and he set his back against the wall of the hut and began to fill his pipe.
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions
The babbling water of the burn was scented with the dead bracken of glens down which it foamed.
Greyfriars Bobby|Eleanor Atkinson
A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross.
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Almost everywhere the bracken flourishes, and heath or ling grows thick on the stony soil.
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British Dictionary definitions for bracken

bracken

/ (ˈbrækən) /

noun

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

a clump of any of these ferns

Word Origin for bracken

C14: of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish bräken, Danish bregne

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