cliff brake
1cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks. [1865 70, Amer.] * * * ▪ plant, genus Pellaea any of about 40 species of ferns of the genus Pellaea (family Pteridaceae). Cliff brake ferns grow… …
2cliff brake — noun any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions • Syn: ↑cliff brake, ↑rock brake • Hypernyms: ↑fern • Hyponyms: ↑coffee fern, ↑Pellaea andromedifolia, ↑ …
3cliff-brake — noun any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions • Syn: ↑cliff brake, ↑rock brake • Hypernyms: ↑fern • Hyponyms: ↑coffee fern, ↑Pellaea andromedifolia, ↑ …
4purple cliff brake — noun : a small cliff brake (Pellaea atropurpurea) with purplish stipes …
5oregon cliff brake — noun Usage: usually capitalized O : a No. American fern (Pellaea densa) with wiry light brown stipes that is cultivated for ornament called also pod fern …
6rock brake — 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 …
7purple rock brake — noun very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes • Syn: ↑Pellaea atropurpurea • Hypernyms: ↑cliff brake, ↑cliff brake, ↑rock brake …
8Book Cliff mines — The Book Cliff Mines were coal mines located near Grand Junction, Colorado. They closed in 1925.History and DescriptionBy the time Grand Junction was three years old it had become apparent to its citizens that they needed a good coal supply if… …
9cliffbrake — cliff brake n. Any of several ferns in the widely distributed genus Pellaea, typically growing in relatively dry rocky areas or on cliffs and having pinnately compound, often leathery leaves. * * * ▪ plant, genus Pellaea (Pellaea species), any… …
10John Boyd Thacher State Park — Infobox park park= John Boyd Thacher State Park image size= 275px caption= type= State Park location= Albany County, New York coordinates= 42° 38 57 74° 00 19 size= convert|2155|acre|ha|0 opened= 1914 operator= New York State annual visitors=… …
