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Noun: purple rock brake
  1. Very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes
    "Purple rock brake adds colour to rock garden designs";
    - Pellaea atropurpurea

Derived forms: purple rock brakes

Type of: cliff brake, cliff-brake, rock brake