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WATER CABBAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water cabbage mean?
• WATER CABBAGE (noun)
The noun WATER CABBAGE has 1 sense:
1. pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
Familiarity information: WATER CABBAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
pistia; Pistia stratiotes; Pistia stratoites; water cabbage; water lettuce
Hypernyms ("water cabbage" 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 ("water cabbage" is a member of...):
genus Pistia (one species: water lettuce)
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