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The Clue
Ferns (6 letter answer)
The Answer
BRAKES
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Notes
The answer BRAKES is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Car stoppers
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Definition
BRAKE as a noun:
1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
2. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
3. (bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum) = large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
4. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
BRAKE as a verb:
1. stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
2. cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"