Definition of Rock brake

1. Noun. Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions.


2. Noun. Dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns.

3. Noun. Chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Brake

rock-jumpers
rock-ribbed
rock-steady
rock & roll
rock 'n' roll
rock 'n' roll musician
rock along
rock band
rock bands
rock barnacle
rock beauty
rock bit
rock bottom
rock brake (current term)
rock bun
rock buns
rock cake
rock candy
rock climber
rock climbing
rock cocaine
rock concert
rock crabs
rock cress
rock crystal
rock dots
rock dove

Literary usage of Rock brake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Ferns: Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions, with the Needful ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1861)
"... Br. Curled Rock-Brake, or Parsley Fern. Gen. Char. Sori roundish or oblong, submarginal, soon confluent. Involucre formed by the revolute margin of the ..."

2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"3 P. atropurpurea L. rock brake. Frond pinnate; rachis hairy; lower Ifts. ternate or pinnate, segments lance-oblong, obtuse, obliquely truncate or sub- ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Cult, simple. acrostichoides, R. Br. ROCK-BRAKE. Height about 8 in. ... SLENDER ROCK-BRAKE. Lvs. 4-10 in. long, very delicate in ..."

4. Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"The rock brake. One of the most interesting of the border species is the rock brake (Cryptogramma ..."

5. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"Rock- Brake. Isle Royale, lake Superior, thence westward and northward, Gray's Manual; doubtless in Minnesota. ASPLENIUM, L. SPLEENWORT. ..."

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