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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bracken \Brack"en\, n. [OE. braken, AS. bracce. See 2d Brake,
n.]
A brake or fern.
--Sir W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"coarse fern," early 14c., a northern England word from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish bregne, Swedish bräken "fern").
Wiktionary
n. (surname)
WordNet
n. fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions [syn: Pteridium esculentum]
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum]
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Wikipedia
Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Ferns (Pteridophyta) are vascular plants that have alternating generations, large plants that produce spores and small plants that produce sex cells (eggs and sperm). Brackens are noted for their large, highly divided leaves. They are found on all continents except Antarctica and in all environments except deserts, though their typical habitat is moorland. The genus probably has the widest distribution of any fern in the world.
In the past, the genus was commonly treated as having only one species, Pteridium aquilinum, but the recent trend is to subdivide it into about ten species.
Like other ferns, brackens do not have seeds or fruits, but the immature fronds, known as fiddleheads, are sometimes eaten, although some are thought to be carcinogenic. (see Poisoning)
The word bracken is of Old Norse origin, related to Swedish bräken and Danish bregne, both meaning fern.
Bracken is a television soap opera broadcast from 1978 to 1982 on RTÉ One in Ireland, depicting rural life in and around County Wicklow. Created and written by Wesley Burrowes, it starred Gabriel Byrne and Niall Tóibín.
The show is chiefly known for being the link between two long standing RTÉ series, in that Gabriel Byrne's character, Pat Barry, had first appeared in The Riordans, towards the end of that show's run. The characters of Dinny and Miley Byrne, played by Joe Lynch and Mick Lally, first appeared on this series, they were later to become the central stars of Glenroe. Each of the three series were created by Wesley Burrowes.
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 opera
- Bracken, Indiana, a small town in the United States
- Bracken County, Kentucky
- Bracken, Saskatchewan
- Bracken Library
- Bracken Health Sciences Library
- Bracken Cave
- Alexandra Bracken
- Bob Bracken
- Brendan Bracken
- Don Bracken
- Eddie Bracken
- Jack Bracken
- James Bracken
- John Bracken
- Josephine Bracken
- Kate Bracken
- Kyran Bracken
- Nathan Bracken
- Paul Bracken
- Peg Bracken
- Peter Bracken
- Raymond Bracken
- Thomas Bracken
- William Bracken
Bracken is a post-rock band from Leeds, England. It started as a solo project by Hood co-founder and lead singer Chris Adams.
Bracken released the first album, We Know About the Need, on Anticon in 2007. It reached number 21 on the Dusted Top 40 Radio Chart in 2007.
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.