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WATERMEAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("watermeal" is a kind of...):
duckweed (any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "watermeal"):
common wolffia; Wolffia columbiana (smallest flowering plants known; of the Americas)
Holonyms ("watermeal" is a member of...):
genus Wolffia; Wolffia (minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond)