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Definition of Marsh fern
1. Noun. Fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate regions.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Thelypteris, Thelypteris
Specialized synonyms: Dryopteris Thelypteris Pubescens, Meadow Fern, Snuffbox Fern, Thelypteris Palustris Pubescens
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsh Fern
Literary usage of Marsh fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"... associated with the great marsh fern (Acrostichum aureum) (PI. ... The pretty
little climbing marsh fern ..."
2. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1875)
"In the Marsh-fern the seed- vessels or ... so that the marsh-fern has her seed
of two characters. The beautiful evergreen, prickly-fern, ..."
3. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1875)
"In the Marsh-fern the seed- vessels or ... at short intervals, are also little
green pellets, so that the marsh-fern has her seed of two characters. ..."
4. A Monograph of the British Eocene Flora by John Starkie Gardner, Constantin Baron Ettingshausen (1882)
"It was evidently a woodland and not a marsh Fern, and its exclusion from ...
luxuriated as a marsh Fern at Bovey, but has only been met with once among ..."
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