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CLIFF-BRAKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions
Synonyms:
cliff-brake; cliff brake; rock brake
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cliff-brake" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cliff-brake"):
coffee fern; Pellaea andromedifolia (evergreen fern of California and Baja California)
Pellaea atropurpurea; purple rock brake (very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes)
bird's-foot fern; Pellaea mucronata; Pellaea ornithopus (cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks)
Holonyms ("cliff-brake" is a member of...):
genus Pellaea; Pellaea (genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae)
