water fern

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water fern - ferns that grow in water aquatic fernfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesclover fern, pepperwort - any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leafletspillwort, Pilularia globulifera - European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarpsregnellidium, Regnellidium diphyllum - small latex-containing aquatic fern of southern Brazilfloating-moss, Salvinia auriculata, Salvinia rotundifolia - free-floating aquatic fernsAzolla caroliniana, Carolina pond fern, mosquito fern, floating fern - small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America; naturalized in western and southern EuropeCeratopteris pteridioides, water sprite, floating fern - aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariumsCeratopteris thalictroides, floating fern - pantropical aquatic fern