Library / English Dictionary

WOLFFIELLA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Minute rootless aquatic herbs having flat fronds floating on or below the water surface and bearing 1-2 flowers per frond; America and Africa

Synonyms:

genus Wolffiella; Wolffiella

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Wolffiella" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Wolffiella"):

bogmat; mud midget; Wolffiella gladiata (having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America)

Holonyms ("Wolffiella" is a member of...):

duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)

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