Term Gallery logo

Meanings of bracken in anglès

espanyol
pteridium
Wikidata

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

        pteridium

        Fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions.

              Usage of bracken in anglès
              1
              I smelled fishy water and bracken mud and sensed a lake nearby.
              Bones Are Forever
              2
              The bracken was so thick and high that it easily concealed him.
              The Magician
              3
              The bracken added its discreet breath hardly amounting to a tangible odour.
              The Velvet Glove
              4
              Freddy dropped the waistcoat at their feet, and dashed into some bracken.
              A Room with a View
              5
              Then the road wound on, pathless and houseless, among gorse and bracken.
              The Best British Short Stories of 1922
              6
              Under his directions they brought a heap of dried bracken and hay.
              The Velvet Glove
              7
              They walked with difficulty through the tangled bracken, among closely planted trees.
              The Magician
              8
              William Douglas stood beside her pulling a blade of bracken to pieces.
              The Black Douglas
              9
              There was tall bracken here, and dewy grass again for her feet.
              The Forest Lovers
              10
              As I stumbled through chest-high spears of dead bracken, the ground disappeared.
              The Silver Pigs
              11
              Nettle threw another pitchfork full of dried bracken onto the wagon bed.
              Servant of a dark god
              12
              George boiled a kettle of water and carried it outside to the bracken.
              Another part of the wood
              13
              The bracken has a nearly painful green in the strangeness of the light.
              In Wicklow and West Kerry
              14
              And there in golden bracken the fronds that toss and turn
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917
              15
              The young man behind the bracken felt himself in somewhat of a dilemma.
              A Maker of History
              16
              The shadows moved listlessly among the bracken, and every vista was an enticement.
              Evelyn Innes
              About this term
              More collocations
              Translations for bracken
              espanyol
              pteridium
              Bracken through the time
              Bracken across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common