WATER FERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water fern mean? 

• WATER FERN (noun)
  The noun WATER FERN has 1 sense:

1. ferns that grow in water

  Familiarity information: WATER FERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER FERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ferns that grow in water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

aquatic fern; water fern

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)