Bracken

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  • noun. A fern (Pteridium aquilinum) found worldwide, with large, triangular fronds usually divided into three parts.
  • noun. An area with dense thickets of this fern.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A fern, especially the Pteris aquilina and other large ferns. See brake.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A brake or fern.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several coarse ferns, of genus Pteridium, that forms dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock
  • noun. An area of countryside heavily infested with this fern
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
  • noun. fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions
    • Word Usage
    "My childhood passed on foot and outdoors, in bracken and on pebbly beaches."
    Hypernym
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    fern  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Machen  blacken  slacken  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cryptomeria  embark  encrustation  foliation  joinery  
    Synonym
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    algae  autophyte  bean  brown algae  climber  
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