Definition of Cliff-brake

1. Noun. Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cliff-brake

cliented
clientelage
clientelages
clientele
clienteles
clientelism
clientelisms
clientelistic
clientless
clients
clientship
clientships
clientside
clies
cliff
cliff-brake (current term)
cliff-hanger
cliff-hanging
cliff brake
cliff diving
cliff dweller
cliff dwelling
cliff hanger
cliff notes
cliff penstemon
cliff rose
cliff swallow
cliffed
cliffhang
cliffhanger

Literary usage of Cliff-brake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Mississippi, Texas and California. Reported from northern Mexico. June-Sept. Clayton's Cliff- brake, Rock- or Winter-brake, Indian's Dream. 2. ..."

2. Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"A fruiting pinna of this species is shown in the Key to the Genera. The Slender Cliff Brake. The slender cliff brake ..."

3. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota, Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"cliff-brake. P. gracilis, Hook. Slender Cliff-Brake. Throughout the state, but rare. ... Clayton's Cliff-Brake. Throughout the state, but infrequent. ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"On sunny exposures of the limestone walls of the ravine grow rue spleenwort and purple cliff-brake in quanities ; in shady place*, the slender cliff-brake; ..."

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