| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bracken |
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| SYLLABICATION: | brack·en |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  br k  n |
| NOUN: | 1. A widespread, often weedy fern (Pteridium aquilinum) having large, triangular, pinnately compound fronds and often forming dense thickets. 2. An area overgrown with this fern. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English braken, probably of Scandinavian origin. See bhreg- in Appendix I.
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