FROG'S-BIT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frog's-bit family mean? 

• FROG'S-BIT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun FROG'S-BIT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROG'S-BIT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frog's-bit family; frogbit family; Hydrocharidaceae; Hydrocharitaceae

Hypernyms ("frog's-bit family" is a kind of...):

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "frog's-bit family"):

genus Hydrocharis; Hydrocharis (frogbit)

genus Hydrilla (one species)

genus Limnobium; Limnobium (American frogbit)

ditchmoss; Elodea; genus Elodea; pondweed (submerged freshwater perennials)

Egeria; genus Egeria (small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants)

genus Vallisneria; Vallisneria (eelgrass; eel grass)

Holonyms ("frog's-bit family" is a member of...):

Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)