Definition of "brackens" []

• Plural form of bracken. (noun)

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• "The wind-flowers have come up trembling, slowly the brackens are up-lifting their curvaceous and pale bodies."
• "I found shelter below an overhanging rock in the crook of a burn, where a drift of dead brackens made a tolerable bed."
• "So it came to pass that those bright autumn Saturday afternoons were spent by Etta and her girls in the woods, where, with the aid of such boys as could get away from their work, a store of scarlet, golden, and variegated autumn leaves was laid in, with late ferns and hardy brackens, curious bits of moss, seed-vessels, and dried grass being added to the store."