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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 flowersplay

  Familiarity information: FROG'S-BIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FROG'S-BIT (noun)


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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