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SAGITTARIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers

Synonyms:

genus Sagittaria; Sagittaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Sagittaria" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sagittaria"):

common arrowhead (a weed)

Holonyms ("Sagittaria" is a member of...):

Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family (perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants)

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