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# bracken

«bracken» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large, tough fern that grows thickly on hills, moors…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bracken — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

A large, tough fern that grows thickly on hills, moors and in woods, green in summer and brown in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In nature and geography lessons in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, bracken covers hillsides and moors; walkers push through it, and it can hide ticks that may carry illness. In stories bracken is where animals hide and children make dens. Phrases: a patch of bracken, hide in the bracken.

### examples

- The deer hid in the bracken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/#x1)
- The hillside was covered in brown bracken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/#x2)
- We made a den out of bracken and sticks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/#x3)
- Check your legs for ticks after walking through bracken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/#x4)
- In autumn, the bracken turns golden brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/#x5)
- The path was hard to find under all the bracken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/#x6)
- He sat still in the bracken, and hoped that the other rabbits wouldn't notice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: "some bracken", "bracken is". Not good to eat: bracken is poisonous to people and animals. Safety: ticks like bracken, so wear long trousers.

### In the corpora

- [Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bracken» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bracken/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.