Bracken

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bracken \Brack"en\, n. [OE. braken, AS. bracce. See {2d Brake},
     n.]
     A brake or fern. --Sir W. Scott.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  bracken
       n 1: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate
            regions [syn: {Pteridium esculentum}]
       2: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed
          ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: {pasture brake}, {brake}, {Pteridium
          aquilinum}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "bracken":
     algae, autophyte, bean, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid,
     creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus,
     grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp,
     legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom,
     parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton,
     planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae,
     rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil,
     sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch,
     vine, wort, wrack
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Bracken -- U.S. County in Kentucky
     Population (2000):    8279
     Housing Units (2000): 3715
     Land area (2000):     203.218425 sq. miles (526.333281 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    5.674273 sq. miles (14.696299 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    208.892698 sq. miles (541.029580 sq. km)
     Located within:       Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
     Location:             38.731039 N, 84.080939 W
     Headwords:
      Bracken
      Bracken, KY
      Bracken County
      Bracken County, KY