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PURPLE ROCK BRAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purple rock brake mean?
• PURPLE ROCK BRAKE (noun)
The noun PURPLE ROCK BRAKE has 1 sense:
1. very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes
Familiarity information: PURPLE ROCK BRAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Pellaea atropurpurea; purple rock brake
Hypernyms ("purple rock brake" 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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