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Definition of Bracken

1. Noun. Fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions.

2. Noun. Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan.

Definition of Bracken

1. n. A brake or fern.

Definition of Bracken

1. Noun. Any of several coarse ferns, of genus ''Pteridium'', that forms dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock ¹

2. Noun. An area of countryside heavily infested with this fern ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bracken

1. a large fern [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bracken

brachytypous brachyura brachyuran brachyuranic brachyurous brachyury bracing bracingly bracings braciola

braciolas braciole bracioles brack brackebuschite bracken (current term) bracken poisoning bracken staggers brackens bracket

bracket creep bracket fungus bracket out bracketed bracketed blenny bracketing bracketless bracketlike bracketry brackets

Literary usage of Bracken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"The Structure of Leaves of the bracken from different habitats. By LA BOODLE. The external characters of the bracken (Pteris aquilina) vary with the habitat ..."

2. Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth by Kentucky (1874)
"Thrs act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 23. 1874. CHAPTER 557. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the town of Milford, in bracken ..."

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