From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Plantsbrackenbrack‧en /ˈbrækən/ noun [uncountable]HBPa plant that often grows in forests and becomes reddish brown in the autumnExamples from the Corpusbracken• Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.• In summer heather and brackencarpet the clifftops and riots of butterflies crowd the bushes and flowers.• The warm hair of Rognvald, shining like eglantine among the crushedbracken.• I crept off down a little path through curlingbracken.• Clare yelled in pain as she fell on scratchy, frostedbracken.• There is nothing-no bunkers, gorse, whin, heather, bracken, or rough-to impede you.• I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken.• It was attached to a rustychain hidden in the bracken.Originbracken(1300-1400) Probably from a Scandinavian language