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bracken

[ UK /bɹˈækən/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹækən/ ]
NOUN
  1. fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions
  2. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

How To Use bracken In A Sentence

  • The bracken was turning to the dusky gold of a fine autumn.
  • Not one of them knew which portion of the bracken was to be his own. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon
  • It is easy to think of a very young seedling (the commonest experimental object in plant science) as being an individual, but which is the individual bracken plant in a huge clonal patch of bracken?
  • You often pick up ticks when walking through bracken, and they're best removed quickly if they attach themselves to you.
  • Plantations of brackens and garlic are the main source of vegetable income for islanders.
  • Above hung the thymy hill where dry grasses and bracken murmured or screamed in the wind.
  • The few non-woody species include little bluestem, wintergreen, Virginia tephrosia, wild indigo, tall oatgrass, cowwheat, low frost weed, turkey beard, and bracken fern.
  • This route led away from the lake through bracken and heather, over a ridge between two hills.
  • Other than that, we ate wild mountain burdocks, butterburs, bracken, flowering ferns and the sesame seeds that were probably carried to the camp on the tails of the horses and now grew there wild.
  • After the logging and fires, resilient plants like fire cherry, bracken fern, and the heaths had reclaimed much of this broken landscape.
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