bracken
Americannoun
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a large fern or brake, especially Pteridium aquilinum.
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a cluster or thicket of such ferns; an area overgrown with ferns and shrubs.
noun
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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
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a clump of any of these ferns
Other Word Forms
- brackened adjective
Etymology
Origin of bracken
1275–1325; Middle English braken < Scandinavian; compare Swedish bräken fern, Norwegian brake juniper
Example Sentences
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Only decades ago many of the cottages in Scotland’s Highlands were roofed in heather, bracken and marram grass.
"The landscape has changed dramatically because the cows have been here for about three seasons and you notice there's very little bracken and there are bluebells coming up."
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It has since fallen or been cut down and now lies among the bracken.
From BBC
Gorse, heather, bracken and trees were removed to reveal the white boulders.
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He's been a zoologist "since I could walk" and his first words were trees, bracken and gorse.
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