As nouns the difference between bracken and fern
is that bracken is any of several coarse ferns, of genus Pteridium, that forms dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock while fern is any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
As proper nouns the difference between bracken and fern
is that bracken is {{surname} while Fern is {{given name|female}} from the fern plant.
bracken
Noun
(en-noun)
(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of genus Pteridium , that forms dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
(uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
fern
English
Noun
(
en noun)
Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
Synonyms
* (Pteridophyta) (archaic)
Derived terms
* (hydrozoan skeletons)
* (in genus Asparagus )
* )
* ferny
* male fern
* (in genus Comptonia )
* tree fern
See also
* bracken
Anagrams
*
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