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Definition of Azolla
1. Noun. A genus of fern sometimes placed in its own family Azollaceae.
Group relationships: Family Salviniaceae, Salviniaceae
Member holonyms: Azolla Caroliniana, Carolina Pond Fern, Floating Fern, Mosquito Fern
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Definition of Azolla
1. a tiny water fern [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Azolla
Literary usage of Azolla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"(WITH PLATE XVI) ROOTS spring from the prostrate floating shoots of Azolla in
acropetal succession at the points of branching. ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"In Azolla the frothy masses in which the microspores are aggregated possess the
remarkable hooks (glochidia) through which they become anchored, ..."
3. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1908)
"The genus Azolla is a small one, but widely distributed. Of the four species
usually recognized, tw> are American, viz. ..."
4. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"Azolla is a little floating plant, looking like a small Liverwort or Moss. ...
Small plant of Azolla Caroliniana. 522. Portion magnified, showing the two ..."
5. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"Three 4to plates, with copious analyses, are given in illustration of the structure
of Azolla, and as many of Salvinia. Flora Rossica; sive Enumeratio ..."
6. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton. Campbell (1907)
"In both Salvinia and Azolla leafless segments alternate with leaf-bearing ...
In Azolla the ventral lobe of each leaf consists of a single layer of cells, ..."
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