WATER PARSNIP

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Meaning:

Stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia

Synonyms:

Sium suave; water parsnip

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

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

genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)

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