| NOUN | plant | rock brake, cliff brake, cliff-brake | any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions |
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| plant | rock brake | dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns | |
| plant | rock brake, rock polypody, American wall fern, Polypodium virgianum | chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia |
| Meaning | Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions. | |
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| Synonyms | cliff brake, cliff-brake | |
| Member of | Pellaea, genus Pellaea | genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns |
| Narrower | bird's-foot fern, Pellaea mucronata, Pellaea ornithopus | cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks |
| coffee fern, Pellaea andromedifolia | evergreen fern of California and Baja California | |
| purple rock brake, Pellaea atropurpurea | Very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes | |
| Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
| Meaning | Dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns. | |
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| Member of | Cryptogramma, genus Cryptogramma | sometimes placed in family ... / family Polypodiaceae or Cryptogrammataceae |
| Narrower | American rock brake, American parsley fern, Cryptogramma acrostichoides | rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley |
| European parsley fern, mountain parsley fern, Cryptogramma crispa | fern of Europe and Asia Minor having short slender rhizome and densely tufted bright green fronds resembling parsley | |
| Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
| Spanish | cryptogramma crispa | |
| Meaning | chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia. | |
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| Synonyms | rock polypody, American wall fern, Polypodium virgianum | |
| Broader | polypody | Any of numerous ferns of the genus Polypodium |
| Spanish | polipodio de roca, polipodio, polypodium virgianum | |
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