bracken
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Already green shoots of bracken are bursting through the blackened earth and that will crowd out the traditional heather, bilberry and cowberry.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
It has been doing that through grazing cattle, which eat the vegetation, while in other areas land managers have used machines to cut and mulch the grass, gorse, bracken and heather.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
High Browns need a delicate combination of bracken and common dog violet.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The insect was last seen in the New Forest in the 1990s and specialist listening equipment was used to locate the insect in France and its eggs which were hidden inside the stems of bracken.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The bushes thinned and the sounding bracken grew rarely in the the swampy earth, so that they could move three times as fast.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing bracken
The Hobbit
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 6
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"Birches" by Robert Frost
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