Bracken

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A widespread, often weedy fern (Pteridium aquilinum) having large, triangular, pinnately compound fronds and often forming dense thickets.
  • n. An area overgrown with this fern.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several coarse ferns, of genus Pteridium, that forms dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock
  • n. An area of countryside heavily infested with this fern
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A brake or fern.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A fern, especially the Pteris aquilina and other large ferns. See brake.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
  • n. fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions
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    fern   
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    Machen    blacken    slacken   
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