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azolla

noun

azolla is a noun meaning “Synonym of mosquito fern (“any of several species of small floating aquatic ferns in the genus Azolla”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-Z-O-L-L-A, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of azolla is azollas.

What does azolla mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of mosquito fern (“any of several species of small floating aquatic ferns in the genus Azolla”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of azolla

  • azollas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is azolla?

Azolla appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does azolla come from?

From the genus taxonomic name Azolla.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).