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salvinia

noun

salvinia is a noun meaning “A fern of the genus Salvinia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-V-I-N-I-A, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of salvinia is salvinias.

What does salvinia mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A fern of the genus Salvinia.

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

Forms of salvinia

  • salvinias plural

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

How common is salvinia?

Salvinia appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 salvinia come from?

From the genus name.

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