PICKEREL WEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pickerel weed mean? 

• PICKEREL WEED (noun)
  The noun PICKEREL WEED has 1 sense:

1. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds

  Familiarity information: PICKEREL WEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICKEREL WEED (noun)

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Meaning:

American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pickerel weed; pickerelweed; Pontederia cordata; wampee

Hypernyms ("pickerel weed" 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 ("pickerel weed" is a member of...):

genus Pontederia; Pontederia (pickerelweed)