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FANWORT
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers
Synonyms:
Cabomba caroliniana; fanwort; water-shield
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fanwort" is a kind of...):
water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)
Holonyms ("fanwort" is a member of...):
Cabomba; genus Cabomba (alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants)