pellaea atropurpurea

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   very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes

   Synonymspurple rock brake

   Broadercliff brake

Questions about pellaea atropurpurea

What does pellaea atropurpurea mean?

pellaea atropurpurea means "very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes".

What is another word for pellaea atropurpurea?

Close synonyms include purple 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 pellaea atropurpurea a common word?

pellaea atropurpurea 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.