Rock Brake (Noun)
Meaning 1
Chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 3
Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Rock brake, with its delicate fronds and distinctive growth habits, was a popular subject among Victorian botanists and naturalists.
- Aspidium fragile, also known as the fragile rock brake, grows in shady spots among limestone boulders and cliff faces.
- Among the varieties of ferns studied was rock brake, its Latin name not familiar to me.
- Our mission, once on site, was to assess whether any Polypodium lithosorioides or Cheilanthes albomarginata - in plain terms rock brake ferns - survived here.
- Because there were mosses growing upon tree bark in shady woodland plus epiphytes that is what Asplenium species grew, no Lithophytic varieties in short such as would come rock brake fronds flat & the under layer and part, however part rather bent toward edge (Asteriac.)