pellaea : Idioms & Phrases


genus pellaea

  • noun genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
    Pellaea.
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pellaea andromedifolia

  • noun evergreen fern of California and Baja California
    coffee fern.
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pellaea atropurpurea

  • noun very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes
    purple rock brake.
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pellaea mucronata

  • noun cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks
    bird's-foot fern; Pellaea mucronata.
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pellaea ornithopus

  • noun cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks
    bird's-foot fern; Pellaea mucronata.
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pellaea rotundifolia

  • noun fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets
    button fern.
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