| a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle |
| anything that slows or hinders a process | anything that slows or hinders a process |
| an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
| large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | 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 | any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants |