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FROG'S-BIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frog's-bit mean?
• FROG'S-BIT (noun)
The noun FROG'S-BIT has 1 sense:
1. European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers
Familiarity information: FROG'S-BIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
frog's-bit; frogbit; Hydrocharis morsus-ranae
Hypernyms ("frog's-bit" 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 ("frog's-bit" is a member of...):
genus Hydrocharis; Hydrocharis (frogbit)
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