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    GENUS SPIRODELA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Minute aquatic herbs floating on the water surface consisting of a shiny leaflike frond and 2-21 rootsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Spirodela; Spirodela

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Spirodela" is a kind of...):

    liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Spirodela"):

    great duckweed; Spirodela polyrrhiza; water flaxseed (cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands)

    Holonyms ("genus Spirodela" is a member of...):

    duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)

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