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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Pteris aquilina (0.01830 detik)
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Definition: Pteris aquilina
Brake
\Brake\, n. [OE. brake fern; cf. AS. bracce fern, LG.
brake willow bush, Da. bregne fern, G. brach fallow; prob.
orig. the growth on rough, broken ground, fr. the root of E.
break. See
Break, v. t., cf.
Bracken, and 2d
Brake, n.]
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1. (Bot.) A fern of the genus
Pteris, esp. the
Pteris aquilina
, common in almost all countries. It has solitary
stems dividing into three principal branches. Less
properly: Any fern.
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2. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles,
with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
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Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. --Shak.
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He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for
stone. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See
Canebrake.
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