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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 undergrowthplay

2. abounding with brackenplay

  Familiarity information: BRAKY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRAKY (adjective)


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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