WATER LETTUCE

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Meaning:

Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes

Synonyms:

pistia; Pistia stratiotes; Pistia stratoites; water cabbage; water lettuce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

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

genus Pistia (one species: water lettuce)

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