WATER LETTUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water lettuce mean? 

• WATER LETTUCE (noun)
  The noun WATER LETTUCE has 1 sense:

1. pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER LETTUCE (noun)

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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 lettuce" 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 lettuce" is a member of...):

genus Pistia (one species: water lettuce)