HyperDic: genus_cabomba

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Cabomba:
NOUNplantgenus Cabomba, Cabombaalternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae
English > genus Cabomba: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningalternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants.
SynonymCabomba
Member ofCabombaceae, subfamily Cabombaceae, water-shield familyIn some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies
Memberswater-shield, fanwort, Cabomba carolinianaCommon aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers
Broadermagnoliid dicot genusgenus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
Spanishcabomba, genus cabomba
Catalancabomba, Cabomba, genus cabomba

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