Definition of Marsileaceae

1. Noun. Clover ferns.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsileaceae

Marshall's vestigial fold
Marshall-Marchetti test
Marshall Islander
Marshall Islands
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall Plan
Marshall syndrome
Marshall test
Marshallagia marshalli
Marshallese
Marshals
Marsilea
Marsilea drummondii
Marsilea quadrifolia
Marsileaceae (current term)
Marsquake
Marstan
Marston Moor
Marstonian
Marta Brigit Nilsson
Martegiani
Martegiani's area
Martegiani's funnel
Martello
Martello tower
Martello towers
Martellos
Martes
Martes americana

Literary usage of Marsileaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"... sori large, about midway between the midrib and margins of the segments, upon the anterior branch of the mostly ij-forked veins. Family 6. Marsileaceae ..."

2. An Introduction to Botany by John Lindley (1839)
"The type of Marsileaceae, properly so called, may be taken from Marsilea itself, of which the most complete account has been given by M. Fabre. ..."

3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"Marsileaceae R. Br. Perennial herbaceous plants rooting in the mud, with slender creeping root- stocks, and 4-foliate or filiform long-petioled leaves. ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"412-414); but in Marsileaceae the output of sperms is 32, ... It is noteworthy that the Marsileaceae have retained the primary vertical wall of the egg, ..."

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