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| Noun | 1. |  cliff-brake - any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regionsfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Pellaea, Pellaea - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae 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 |
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