brake vs Pteris

brake and Pteris both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brake	Yes	No	Yes	No
Pteris	Yes	No	No	No

brake (noun)	Pteris (noun)
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle	large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae
anything that slows or hinders a process
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

brake (verb)	Pteris (verb)
cause to stop by applying the brakes
stop travelling by applying a brake