SPIRODELA

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Meaning:

Minute aquatic herbs floating on the water surface consisting of a shiny leaflike frond and 2-21 roots

Synonyms:

genus Spirodela; Spirodela

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Spirodela"):

great duckweed; Spirodela polyrrhiza; water flaxseed (cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands)

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

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