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WOLFFIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond
Synonyms:
genus Wolffia; Wolffia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Wolffia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Wolffia"):
watermeal (any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world)
Holonyms ("Wolffia" is a member of...):
duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)