AQUATIC FERN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Ferns that grow in water

Synonyms:

aquatic fern; water fern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("aquatic 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 "aquatic 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)

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)