WATER ORCHID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States

Synonyms:

Eichhornia crassipes; Eichhornia spesiosa; water hyacinth; water orchid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("water orchid" 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 orchid" is a member of...):

Eichhornia; genus Eichhornia (water hyacinth; water orchid)

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