0 a large fern (= a type of plant) that grows thickly in open areas of countryside, especially on hills, and in woods --
They have no desire to disturb wildlife or to struggle with bracken, bramble or briar.
Some of them, within living memory, provided pasturage for sheep, cattle, goats and horses, but they are now overgrown with bracken, thorns and brambles.
That cattle would get rid of the bracken, which is one of our greatest blights, and the nation would benefit from the food we produced.
And nothing annoys and irritates me more than, to see land being wasted, even if it happens to be by the presence of beautiful bracken.
I have known fields that in the last 10 years have gradually disappeared, encroached upon by bracken, thistles, or ragwort.
Bracken's arguments concern trauma, a culture-bound disorder and not schizophrenia or dementia.
Kuhn and their importance for re-vegetation after bracken control.
Forest recovery in these areas seems to be exceptionally slow, and repeated fires in the bracken-covered areas appears to lead to their gradual transformation into graminoid-dominated savanna.