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bracken

DEFINITIONS OF: bracken

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

Synonyms:
Pteridium aquilinum, brake, pasture brake
Type of:
fern
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores

n fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions

Synonyms:
Pteridium esculentum
Type of:
fern
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
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