marsilea quadrifolia

1. 1.

   water fern of Europe and Asia and the eastern United States distinguished by four leaflets resembling clover leaves

   Synonymswater clover

   Broaderclover fern

   Part ofMarsilea

Questions about marsilea quadrifolia

What does marsilea quadrifolia mean?

marsilea quadrifolia means "water fern of Europe and Asia and the eastern United States distinguished by four leaflets resembling clover leaves".

What is another word for marsilea quadrifolia?

Close synonyms include water clover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marsilea quadrifolia a common word?

marsilea quadrifolia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.