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Noun: cliff-brake
  1. Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions
    "The purple cliff-brake is often found growing in crevices on limestone cliffs";
    - cliff brake, rock brake

Derived forms: cliff brakes, cliff-brakes

Type of: fern

Part of: genus Pellaea, Pellaea