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Answer for the clue "Coarse ferns ", 7 letters:
bracken

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Word definitions for bracken in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"coarse fern," early 14c., a northern England word from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish bregne , Swedish bräken "fern").

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bracken are several species of ferns, including: Pteridium esculentum , also called aruhe in New Zealand. Bracken may also refer to: Bracken (band) , UK, Leeds experimental post-rock band founded by Chris Adams Bracken (TV series) , Irish television soap ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bracken \Brack"en\, n. [OE. braken, AS. bracce. See 2d Brake , n.] A brake or fern. --Sir W. Scott.

Usage examples of bracken.

Fernbrake Lake, one of the four magical lakes in Achar, lay deep in the Bracken Ranges far to the south of the Avarinheim, and the Avar people had to travel secretly through the hostile Skarabost Plains to reach the lake they called the Mother.

The day was away back in the alcheringa and it had been very still and very hot, and the whole tribe, with the exception of one man, lay amongst the bracken in the shade of big eucalypti and lesser myrtles and other scrub.

Bracken fern, rank and tall, Chorizema and snake vine, Bauera with the always blooming pink flowerets, and Tetratheca, with the layer of tangled twigs, made the going difficult.

Once, when he was a mogul of bean-counting, when he was peeing strongly, when he was fucking Jo on his desk, her legs bifurcated eagerly, he tried to buy the house up in the bracken, which has its own path to the cove.

Hunter Predd and Walker arrived aboard Obsidian at the seaport of March Brume, some distance north of Bracken Clell on the coast of the Blue Divide.

The faint buzzing of a bee, the scurry of rabbits rustling through the bilberry and bracken, the occasional bleat of a stray sheep, the trilling of the birds, and that ever-present rush of water dropping over the edge of Dern Ghyll close by.

The Bracken has branched riblets, and is more viscid, mucilaginous, and diuretic, than the Male Fern.

Big old gnarled Banksia serrata leaned over bowing to the sea, and the underscrub was leptospermum and bracken fern with a tangle of hibbertia and smilax and hardenbergias.

Lord Jonos Bracken had followed, vowing to reclaim the burnt shell of his castle and bury his dead, and now Lord Jason Mallister had announced his intent to return to his seat at Seagard, still mercifully untouched by the fighting.

Wareham was gone under springing heather, like the purple mantle that clothed Wytch Heath, and the bracken spreading before the trees.

It is a tangle of dwarf birches, bracken and blaeberry, with ancient Scots firs on the summit, and from its winding walks there is a prospect of the high peaks of the forest rising black and jagged above the purple ridges.

I knew that what seemed smooth sward was really matted blaeberries and hidden boulders, and that the darker patches were breast-high bracken and heather.

Nicholas was like me--he kenned fine that our triumph in the North was fairy gold that is braw dollars one day and the next a nieve-full of bracken.

The revolver with which he had shot Bertram Ingledew lay close by her feet, among the bracken on the heath, where Monteith had flung it.

The waitingmaids, who have escorted me to the door, fall on all fours as a final salute, and remain prostrate on the threshold as long as I am still in sight down the dark pathway, where the rain trickles off the great overarching bracken upon my head.