cliff brake

1. Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions (synset 113232688)
   is a type of: fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
   subtypes:

   • 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
   belongs to: genus pellaea, pellaea - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
   same as: cliff-brake, rock brake

Other Searches

• Rhyme: Dillfrog, RhymeZone
• Definition: Wiktionary, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, WordNet, Power Thesaurus
• Imagery: Google, Flickr, Bing