| NOUN | plant | Pistia stratiotes, pistia, water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratoites | pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves |
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| Meaning | pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes. | |
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| Synonyms | pistia, water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratoites | |
| Member of | genus Pistia | One species |
| Broader | aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant | A 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 |
| Spanish | pistia, Pistia stratiotes | |
| Catalan | pistia | |
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