GENUS PISTIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One species: water lettuce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Pistia" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pistia"):

pistia; Pistia stratiotes; Pistia stratoites; water cabbage; water lettuce (pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes)

Holonyms ("genus Pistia" is a member of...):

Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)

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