WATERMEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does watermeal mean? 

• WATERMEAL (noun)
  The noun WATERMEAL has 1 sense:

1. any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world

  Familiarity information: WATERMEAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERMEAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("watermeal" is a kind of...):

duckweed (any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "watermeal"):

common wolffia; Wolffia columbiana (smallest flowering plants known; of the Americas)

Holonyms ("watermeal" is a member of...):

genus Wolffia; Wolffia (minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond)