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bracken

/brak-uhn/US // ˈbræk ən //UK // (ˈbrækən) //

蕨类植物,蕨类,蕨菜,蕨类动物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large fern or brake, especially Pteridium aquilinum.
    • : a cluster or thicket of such ferns; an area overgrown with ferns and shrubs.

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Examples

  • Apart from a moose carcass and a trail overgrown with bracken ferns, there was little to see.

  • Consider Enemies Foreign and Domestic, a Patriot-themed novel self-published by former Navy SEAL Matthew Bracken in 2003.

  • She moves slyly among the bracken, and her exquisite scent serves to guide her unerringly as she works up wind.

  • She curled herself up in the bracken, and he set his back against the wall of the hut and began to fill his pipe.

  • The babbling water of the burn was scented with the dead bracken of glens down which it foamed.

  • A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross.

  • Almost everywhere the bracken flourishes, and heath or ling grows thick on the stony soil.