HyperDic: pickerel_weed

English > 1 sense of the expression pickerel weed:
NOUNplantpickerel weed, pickerelweed, wampee, Pontederia cordataAmerican plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
English > pickerel weed: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningAmerican plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds.
Synonymspickerelweed, wampee, Pontederia cordata
Member ofPontederia, genus Pontederiapickerelweed
Broaderaquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plantA plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth

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