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BRACKEN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

Synonyms:

bracken; brake; pasture brake; Pteridium aquilinum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bracken" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("bracken" is a member of...):

genus Pteridium; Pteridium (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions

Synonyms:

bracken; Pteridium esculentum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bracken" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("bracken" is a member of...):

genus Pteridium; Pteridium (a genus of ferns belonging to the family Dennstaedtiaceae)

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 Context examples: 

The peasant's gossip had been of the hunt, of the bracken, of the gray-headed kites that had nested in Wood Fidley, and of the great catch of herring brought back by the boats of Pitt's Deep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)