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GENUS CABOMBA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants
Synonyms:
Cabomba; genus Cabomba
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cabomba" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cabomba"):
Cabomba caroliniana; fanwort; water-shield (common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Cabomba" is a member of...):
Cabombaceae; subfamily Cabombaceae; water-shield family (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia)
