Bracken
['bræk(ə)n] or ['brækən]
Definition
(noun.) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan.
(noun.) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions.
Editor: Michel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A brake or fern.
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Definition
n. fern.
Editor: Patrick
Examples
- Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She saw that they were running among trees--great old trees with dying bracken undergrowth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He threw a rug on to the bracken, and they sat in stillness and mindless silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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