water_fern (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *water fern*:
NOUN	plant	water fern, aquatic fern	ferns that grow in water

English > *water fern*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	ferns that grow in water.
Synonym	aquatic fern
Narrower	clover fern, pepperwort	Any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets
	floating-moss, Salvinia rotundifolia, Salvinia auriculata	Free-floating aquatic ferns
	floating fern, water sprite, Ceratopteris pteridioides	aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums
	floating fern, Ceratopteris thalictroides	pantropical aquatic fern
	mosquito fern, floating fern, Carolina pond fern, Azolla caroliniana	small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America
	pillwort, Pilularia globulifera	European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps
	regnellidium, Regnellidium diphyllum	small latex-containing aquatic fern of southern Brazil
Broader	fern	Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward

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