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Definition of Cliff-brake
1. Noun. Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Pellaea, Pellaea
Specialized synonyms: Coffee Fern, Pellaea Andromedifolia, Pellaea Atropurpurea, Purple Rock Brake, Bird's-foot Fern, Pellaea Mucronata, Pellaea Ornithopus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cliff-brake
Literary usage of Cliff-brake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Mississippi, Texas and California. Reported from northern Mexico. June-Sept.
Clayton's Cliff- brake, Rock- or Winter-brake, Indian's Dream. 2. ..."
2. Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"A fruiting pinna of this species is shown in the Key to the Genera. The Slender
Cliff Brake. The slender cliff brake ..."
3. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota, Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"cliff-brake. P. gracilis, Hook. Slender Cliff-Brake. Throughout the state, but rare.
... Clayton's Cliff-Brake. Throughout the state, but infrequent. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"On sunny exposures of the limestone walls of the ravine grow rue spleenwort and
purple cliff-brake in quanities ; in shady place*, the slender cliff-brake; ..."
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