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AMERICAN ROCK BRAKE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does American rock brake mean?

• AMERICAN ROCK BRAKE (noun)
The noun AMERICAN ROCK BRAKE has 1 sense:

1. rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley

Familiarity information: AMERICAN ROCK BRAKE used as a noun is very rare.

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• AMERICAN ROCK BRAKE (noun)

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Meaning:

Rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American parsley fern; American rock brake; Cryptogramma acrostichoides

Hypernyms ("American rock brake" is a kind of...):

rock brake (dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns)

Holonyms ("American rock brake" is a member of...):

Cryptogramma; genus Cryptogramma (sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Cryptogrammataceae)

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