Noun: bracken bra-kun
- Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
"Bracken covered the entire hillside";
- pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum
- Fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions
"The tropical bracken spread quickly in the warm climate";
- Pteridium esculentum
Derived forms: brackens
Type of: fern
Part of: genus Pteridium, Pteridium
Encyclopedia: Bracken, Peter