rock brake

Questions about rock brake

What does rock brake mean?

rock brake means "any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for rock brake?

Close synonyms include cliff brake, cliff-brake, rock polypody, American wall fern, Polypodium virgianum. 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 rock brake a common word?

rock brake is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.