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WATER DRAGON

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercupsplay

Synonyms:

Caltha palustris; cowslip; kingcup; marsh marigold; May blob; meadow bright; water dragon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

Caltha; genus Caltha (a genus of Caltha)

Sense 2

Meaning:

North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowersplay

Synonyms:

lizard's-tail; Saururus cernuus; swamp lily; water dragon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

genus Saururus; Saururus (type genus of the Saururaceae: lizard's-tails)

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