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FEATHERFOIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does featherfoil mean?
• FEATHERFOIL (noun)
The noun FEATHERFOIL has 1 sense:
1. a plant of the genus Hottonia
Familiarity information: FEATHERFOIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Hottonia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
feather-foil; featherfoil
Hypernyms ("featherfoil" 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "featherfoil"):
American featherfoil; Hottonia inflata; water gillyflower (a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers)
Hottonia palustris; water violet (featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers)
Holonyms ("featherfoil" is a member of...):
genus Hottonia; Hottonia (aquatic herbs)
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