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brackens

brackens is the plural of bracken.

Meaning of bracken

Noun

bracken (usually uncountable, plural brackens)

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
  2. (usually) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.

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Proper noun capitalized: Brackens

Brackens (plural Brackenses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of brackens

pluralBrackenses

Origin of brackens

Variant of Bracken.

Questions about brackens

What does brackens mean?
Brackens means a surname.
What is brackens the plural of?
Brackens is the plural of bracken.
What part of speech is brackens?
Brackens is a proper noun.

Words near brackens in the dictionary

  1. Brackenbury
  2. Brackenburys
  3. brackened
  4. Brackenhill
  5. Brackenridge
  6. brackens
  7. Brackenses
  8. brackeny
  9. bracker
  10. brackest
  11. bracket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brackens (page history and authors); Brackens (page history and authors); bracken (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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