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WOLFFIELLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute rootless aquatic herbs having flat fronds floating on or below the water surface and bearing 1-2 flowers per frond; America and Africa
Synonyms:
genus Wolffiella; Wolffiella
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Wolffiella" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Wolffiella"):
bogmat; mud midget; Wolffiella gladiata (having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America)
Holonyms ("Wolffiella" is a member of...):
duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)