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FANWORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fanwort mean?
• FANWORT (noun)
The noun FANWORT has 1 sense:
1. common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers
Familiarity information: FANWORT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cabomba caroliniana; fanwort; water-shield
Hypernyms ("fanwort" is a kind of...):
water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)
Holonyms ("fanwort" is a member of...):
Cabomba; genus Cabomba (alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants)
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