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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 America
Familiarity information: WATER CROWFOOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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