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Marsilea vs Fern - What's the difference?

marsilea | fern |

As a noun marsilea

is (botany) any of the genus of aquatic ferns.

As a proper noun fern is

(female) from the fern plant.

marsilea

English

(wikipedia marsilea) (wikispecies)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Any of the genus of aquatic ferns.

    • fern

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

    • Synonyms

    * (Pteridophyta) (archaic)

    Derived terms

    * (hydrozoan skeletons) * (in genus Asparagus ) * ) * ferny * male fern * (in genus Comptonia ) * tree fern

    See also

    * bracken

    External links

    * ("fern" on Wikipedia)

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