Term: bracken: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: dowry: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: ball hawking: a skillful maneuver in catching balls or in stealing the ball from the opposing team
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: osteology: the branch of anatomy that studies the bones of the vertebrate skeleton
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: cool: the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: complement fixation test: a blood test in which a sample of serum is exposed to a particular antigen and complement in order to determine whether or not antibodies to that particular antigen are present; used as a diagnostic test
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: livistona: fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: worthlessness: the quality of being without practical use
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: gambling house: a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: vascular ray: a sheet of vascular tissue separating the vascular bundles
Broader: fern: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | Unrelated: genus vernonia: genus of New World tropical herbs or shrubs with terminal cymose heads of tubular flowers