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BRAKY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does braky mean?
• BRAKY (adjective)
The adjective BRAKY has 2 senses:
1. covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth
2. abounding with bracken
Familiarity information: BRAKY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth
Synonyms:
braky; brambly
Similar:
wooded (covered with growing trees and bushes etc)
Derivation:
brake (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Abounding with bracken
Context example:
the woods and braky glens
Similar:
ferned; ferny (abounding in or covered with ferns)
Derivation:
brake (large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan)
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