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AMERICAN FROGBIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American frogbit mean?
• AMERICAN FROGBIT (noun)
The noun AMERICAN FROGBIT has 1 sense:
1. American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches
Familiarity information: AMERICAN FROGBIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American frogbit; Limnodium spongia
Hypernyms ("American frogbit" 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 ("American frogbit" is a member of...):
genus Limnobium; Limnobium (American frogbit)
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