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NUPHAR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spatterdocks

Synonyms:

genus Nuphar; Nuphar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Nuphar" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Nuphar"):

cow lily; Nuphar advena; spatterdock; yellow pond lily (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)

Nuphar lutea; yellow water lily (a water lily with yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("Nuphar" is a member of...):

family Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeaceae; water-lily family (dicot aquatic plants)

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