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    WATER LETTUCE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakesplay

    Synonyms:

    pistia; Pistia stratiotes; Pistia stratoites; water cabbage; water lettuce

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("water lettuce" 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 ("water lettuce" is a member of...):

    genus Pistia (one species: water lettuce)

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