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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 buttercups
Synonyms:
Caltha palustris; cowslip; kingcup; marsh marigold; May blob; meadow bright; water dragon
Classified under:
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 flowers
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)