purple rock brake

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

   SynonymsPellaea atropurpurea

   Broadercliff brake

Questions about purple rock brake

What does purple rock brake mean?

purple rock brake 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 purple rock brake?

Close synonyms include Pellaea atropurpurea. 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 purple rock brake a common word?

purple rock 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.