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WATER CROWFOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water crowfoot mean? 

WATER CROWFOOT (noun)
  The noun WATER CROWFOOT has 1 sense:

1. plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: WATER CROWFOOT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WATER CROWFOOT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ranunculus aquatilis; water buttercup; water crowfoot

Hypernyms ("water crowfoot" 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 crowfoot" is a member of...):

genus Ranunculus; Ranunculus (annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot)


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