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Definition of Aquatic fern
1. Noun. Ferns that grow in water.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Specialized synonyms: Clover Fern, Pepperwort, Pillwort, Pilularia Globulifera, Regnellidium, Regnellidium Diphyllum, Floating-moss, Salvinia Auriculata, Salvinia Rotundifolia, Azolla Caroliniana, Carolina Pond Fern, Floating Fern, Mosquito Fern, Ceratopteris Pteridioides, Floating Fern, Water Sprite, Ceratopteris Thalictroides, Floating Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aquatic Fern
Literary usage of Aquatic fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1858)
"This highly curious and, in form, extremely variable aquatic Fern, has been
greatly misunderstood as to its genus and its specific limits, ..."
2. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae) by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"... Kny (6)) This family comprises but a single species, Ceratopteris thalictroides,
a peculiar aquatic Fern of wide distribution in the tropies. ..."
3. Historia filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"Ceratopteris thalictroides grows in shallow waters, its sterile fronds floating
on the water, and may be said to be the only truly aquatic Fern, and one of ..."
4. A Contribution to the Flora of Australia by William Woolls (1867)
"... an interesting aquatic fern, floating or attached to soil in shallow waters.
It was found by Cunningham in Goulburn Islands, and also by Dr. 1\ Mueller, ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1860)
"... with their leaves above or below water, and separation takes place only by
the decay of the mother frond." The aquatic fern referred to by Mr Thomson is ..."
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