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WATER LETTUCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
Synonyms:
pistia; Pistia stratiotes; Pistia stratoites; water cabbage; water lettuce
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("water lettuce" is a kind of...):
aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)
Holonyms ("water lettuce" is a member of...):
genus Pistia (one species: water lettuce)
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