bracken

Examples

• All

• The trail cuts through drenched bracken, and soon my pant legs are soaked.

• Though the air was fragrant with the aged scent of old bracken, Brys breathed only shallowly.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Yes, bracken, small shrubs, that sort of thing.

  Time Bandits (1981)

• "A rattling against the bracken at first frightened him, but interested him."

  Lorenzo's Oil (1992)

• Kneeling amid the bracken, she felt the tracks with her fingers.

  Fiction book (2001)

• A search failed to find the messenger, but did discover his bay mare, nervously cropping bracken in a nearby clearing.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The young bull ambled out of the bracken and stepped onto the trail.

• The ground beneath them is blanketed in bracken fern, bear clover, and lupine.

Synonyms

B

brake

vsbracken

• Archaic

1 9.9

A large fern plant with many leaves that grows close to the ground

names only the plant found in woodlands and open places not the land

P

Pteridium aquilinum

vsbracken

• Specialized

9.9

A large wild fern with many fronds that grows in groups and spreads quickly

is the common general name without scientific labeling

P

pasture brake

vsbracken

• UK

9.9

A large rough fern that grows in fields and looks like a weed

is found in woodlands or open areas without weed connotation

Compounds

F

false bracken

• Australian

9.8

A fern in Queensland with leaves like common bracken

F

French bracken

• Specialized

7.2

A large fern with deep roots and long divided leaves that grows on hills and in woods

Surface Forms

Etymology