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Bracken

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Noun

1. bracken, pteridium esculentum

fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions

2. bracken, brake, pasture brake, pteridium aquilinum

large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bracken

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noun
1. 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
2. 
a clump of any of these ferns

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Bracken

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noun
1. 
any of a genus (Pteridium, family Polypodiaceae) of large, coarse, weedy ferns, occurring in meadows, woods, and esp. wastelands: very closely related to the brake ferns
2. 
a growth of such ferns

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bracken

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n.
1. A fern (Pteridium aquilinum) found worldwide, with large, triangular fronds usually divided into three parts.
2. An area with dense thickets of this fern.

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