water sprite

Questions about water sprite

What does water sprite mean?

water sprite means "aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for water sprite?

Close synonyms include floating fern, Ceratopteris pteridioides, water nymph, water spirit. 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 water sprite a common word?

water sprite is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.