cliff-brake

Questions about cliff-brake

What does cliff-brake mean?

cliff-brake means "any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions".

How many syllables are in cliff-brake?

cliff-brake has 2 syllables and divides as cliff--brake under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cliff-brake?

Close synonyms include cliff brake, rock brake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cliff-brake a common word?

cliff-brake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.