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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 regionsplay

    Synonyms:

    cliff-brake; cliff brake; rock brake

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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