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WATER FERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ferns that grow in water
Synonyms:
aquatic fern; water fern
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("water fern" is a kind of...):
fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water fern"):
clover fern; pepperwort (any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets)
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)
floating-moss; Salvinia auriculata; Salvinia rotundifolia (free-floating aquatic ferns)
Azolla caroliniana; Carolina pond fern; floating fern; mosquito fern (small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America; naturalized in western and southern Europe)
Ceratopteris pteridioides; floating fern; water sprite (aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums)
Ceratopteris thalictroides; floating fern (pantropical aquatic fern)
