PELLAEA ATROPURPUREA

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Meaning:

Very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes

Synonyms:

Pellaea atropurpurea; purple rock brake

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pellaea atropurpurea" is a kind of...):

cliff-brake; cliff brake; rock brake (any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions)

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