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GENUS WOLFFIELLA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Wolffiella mean?
• GENUS WOLFFIELLA (noun)
The noun GENUS WOLFFIELLA has 1 sense:
1. minute rootless aquatic herbs having flat fronds floating on or below the water surface and bearing 1-2 flowers per frond; America and Africa
Familiarity information: GENUS WOLFFIELLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute rootless aquatic herbs having flat fronds floating on or below the water surface and bearing 1-2 flowers per frond; America and Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Wolffiella; Wolffiella
Hypernyms ("genus Wolffiella" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Wolffiella"):
bogmat; mud midget; Wolffiella gladiata (having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America)
Holonyms ("genus Wolffiella" is a member of...):
duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)
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