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WATER SPEEDWELL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water speedwell mean?
• WATER SPEEDWELL (noun)
The noun WATER SPEEDWELL has 1 sense:
1. plant of wet places in Eurasia and America
Familiarity information: WATER SPEEDWELL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant of wet places in Eurasia and America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Veronica anagallis-aquatica; Veronica michauxii; water speedwell
Hypernyms ("water speedwell" 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 speedwell" is a member of...):
genus Veronica (widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell)
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