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    AWLWORT

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumborealplay

    Synonyms:

    awlwort; Subularia aquatica

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("awlwort" 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 ("awlwort" is a member of...):

    genus Subularia; Subularia (small genus of herbs of north temperate regions and mountains of tropical Africa)

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