WATER CLOVER

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Meaning:

Water fern of Europe and Asia and the eastern United States distinguished by four leaflets resembling clover leaves

Synonyms:

Marsilea quadrifolia; water clover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("water clover" is a kind of...):

clover fern; pepperwort (any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets)

Holonyms ("water clover" is a member of...):

genus Marsilea; Marsilea (clover ferns)

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