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PIPEWORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pipewort mean?
• PIPEWORT (noun)
The noun PIPEWORT has 1 sense:
1. aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers
Familiarity information: PIPEWORT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Eriocaulon aquaticum; pipewort
Hypernyms ("pipewort" 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 ("pipewort" is a member of...):
Eriocaulon; genus Eriocaulon (type genus of the Eriocaulaceae: rushlike aquatic or marginal perennials usually found in shallow waters of acid lakes and pools and bogs)
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