cliff-brake
English Thesaurus
1. any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fern, |
| definition | : | any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | pellaea atropurpurea, purple rock brake, |
| definition | : | very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus pellaea, pellaea, |
| definition | : | genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae (noun.plant) |
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