noun
1. chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
• Syn: ↑rock polypody, ↑American wall fern, ↑Polypodium virgianum
• Hypernyms: ↑polypody
2. any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions
• Syn: ↑cliff brake, ↑cliff-brake
• Hypernyms: ↑fern
• Hyponyms:
↑coffee fern, ↑Pellaea andromedifolia, ↑purple rock brake, ↑Pellaea atropurpurea, ↑bird's-foot fern, ↑Pellaea mucronata, ↑Pellaea ornithopus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pellaea, ↑genus Pellaea
3. dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns
• Hypernyms: ↑fern
• Hyponyms: ↑American rock brake, ↑American parsley fern, ↑Cryptogramma acrostichoides, ↑European parsley fern, ↑mountain parsley fern, ↑Cryptogramma crispa
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cryptogramma, ↑genus Cryptogramma
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noun : any of several ferns that grow chiefly on or among rocks: as
a. : cliff brake
b. : a fern of the genus Cryptogamma
c. : polypody
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rock brake noun
Parsley fern
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Main Entry: ↑rock
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rock brake,
any one of a group of low ferns of cool areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.