WAMPEE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds

Synonyms:

pickerel weed; pickerelweed; Pontederia cordata; wampee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

genus Pontederia; Pontederia (pickerelweed)

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