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WATER CARPET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water carpet mean?
• WATER CARPET (noun)
The noun WATER CARPET has 1 sense:
1. aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States
Familiarity information: WATER CARPET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chrysosplenium americanum; water carpet; water mat
Hypernyms ("water carpet" is a kind of...):
golden saxifrage; golden spleen (any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium)
Holonyms ("water carpet" is a member of...):
Chrysosplenium; genus Chrysosplenium (genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers)
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