Definition of Salvinia

1. Noun. Type genus of the Salviniaceae: water ferns.

Exact synonyms: Genus Salvinia
Group relationships: Family Salviniaceae, Salviniaceae
Member holonyms: Floating-moss, Salvinia Auriculata, Salvinia Rotundifolia
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salvinia

Salvi
Salvia azurea
Salvia clarea
Salvia divinorum
Salvia farinacea
Salvia lancifolia
Salvia leucophylla
Salvia lyrata
Salvia officinalis
Salvia pratensis
Salvia reflexa
Salvia sclarea
Salvia spathacea
Salvia verbenaca
Salvidor Dali
Salvinia
Salvinia auriculata
Salvinia rotundifolia
Salviniaceae
Salvis
Salvos
Salyut
Salzburg
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Literary usage of Salvinia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The prothallus is chlorophyllous and in varying degree, that of salvinia has much, ... salvinia. The prothallus of salvinia possesses meristem, ..."

2. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"salvinia is a heterosporous form, each microspore of which gives rise to a very rudimentary ... is just as pronounced as in salvinia. ..."

3. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1893)
"It is this striking dimorphism of the sori, sporangia, and spores which forms the chief distinction between salvinia and its allies and the true ferns. ..."

4. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"salvinia NATANS. AT the latter end of autumn the large ripe spores of salvinia form ellipsoidal cells whose longitudinal diameter is from j"' to j"', ..."

5. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1900)
"salvinia salvinia is a small fresh-water plant, found floating, like duckweed, on the surface of still water. The stem (Fig. ..."

6. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1897)
"salvinia salvinia is a small fresh-water plant, found floating, like duckweed, on the surface of still water. The stem (Fig. ..."

7. Lessons in elementary biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1898)
"salvinia salvinia is a small fresh-water plant, found floating, like duckweed, on the surface of still water. The stem (Fig. ..."

8. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The prothallus is chlorophyllous and in varying degree, that of salvinia has much, ... salvinia. The prothallus of salvinia possesses meristem, ..."

9. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"salvinia is a heterosporous form, each microspore of which gives rise to a very rudimentary ... is just as pronounced as in salvinia. ..."

10. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1893)
"It is this striking dimorphism of the sori, sporangia, and spores which forms the chief distinction between salvinia and its allies and the true ferns. ..."

11. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"salvinia NATANS. AT the latter end of autumn the large ripe spores of salvinia form ellipsoidal cells whose longitudinal diameter is from j"' to j"', ..."

12. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1900)
"salvinia salvinia is a small fresh-water plant, found floating, like duckweed, on the surface of still water. The stem (Fig. ..."

13. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1897)
"salvinia salvinia is a small fresh-water plant, found floating, like duckweed, on the surface of still water. The stem (Fig. ..."

14. Lessons in elementary biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1898)
"salvinia salvinia is a small fresh-water plant, found floating, like duckweed, on the surface of still water. The stem (Fig. ..."

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