name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbɹækən/
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rhymes with -ækən
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CMU ARPABET: B R AE1 K AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
An unincorporated community in Huntington County, Indiana, United States.
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name
Meaning 3
An unincorporated community in Webster County, Missouri, United States, named after Bracken Creek.
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name
Meaning 4
A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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noun
Meaning 5
Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 6
An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 7
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fern
noun
Meaning 8
fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fern
History
Etymology
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Breacáin (“descendant of Breacán”), from Breacán, a name diminutive of breac (“spotted”) * As an English surname, from Middle English bracken (“fern”) * As an English habitational surname, from Bracon Ash in Norfolk, Bracken in Yorkshire * As a German surname, from Middle Low German braak (“fallow”) Also compare Brackeen.
From Middle English braken, probably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *brakni (“undergrowth”), related to Proto-Germanic *brekaną and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhreg- (“to break”). Cognates include Danish bregne and Swedish bräken (“fern”).
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: արծվապտեր (arcvapter) — any of several coarse ferns
- Bulgarian: орлова папрат (orlova paprat) — any of several coarse ferns
- Catalan: falguera aquilina — any of several coarse ferns
- Catalan: falaguera aquilina — any of several coarse ferns
- Chinese Mandarin: 羊齒 /羊齿 (yángchǐ) — any of several coarse ferns
- Chinese Mandarin: 蕨菜 (juécài) — any of several coarse ferns
- Dutch: adelaarsvaren — any of several coarse ferns
- Esperanto: pteridio — any of several coarse ferns
- Finnish: lännensananjalka — any of several coarse ferns
- French: ptéridium — any of several coarse ferns
- German: Adlerfarne — any of several coarse ferns
- Ancient Greek: θηλυπτερίς (thēlupterís) — any of several coarse ferns
- Hungarian: saspáfrány — any of several coarse ferns
- Irish: raithneach — any of several coarse ferns
- Italian: felce — any of several coarse ferns
- Italian: felce aquilina — any of several coarse ferns
- Japanese: 蕨 (warabi) — any of several coarse ferns
- Kikuyu: rũthirũ — any of several coarse ferns
- Korean: 고사리 (gosari) — any of several coarse ferns
- Māori: rarauhe — any of several coarse ferns
- Māori: rauaruhe — any of several coarse ferns
- Māori: mārohi — any of several coarse ferns
- Māori: rarauwhe — any of several coarse ferns
- Māori: rārahu — any of several coarse ferns
- Māori: tākaka — any of several coarse ferns
- Māori: manehu — any of several coarse ferns
- Mongolian: ойм (ojm) — any of several coarse ferns
- Norman: feûgiéthe — any of several coarse ferns
- Persian: کرف (karaf) — any of several coarse ferns
- Polish: orlica — any of several coarse ferns
- Portuguese: feto-águia — any of several coarse ferns
- Russian: па́поротник-орля́к (páporotnik-orlják) — any of several coarse ferns
- Scottish Gaelic: raineach — any of several coarse ferns
- Serbo-Croatian: bujad — any of several coarse ferns
- Spanish: helecho — any of several coarse ferns
- Swedish: örnbräken — any of several coarse ferns
- Turkish: kuzgun otu — any of several coarse ferns
- Ottoman Turkish: قوزغون اوتی (kuzgun otu) — any of several coarse ferns
- Welsh: rhedyn ungoes — any of several coarse ferns