HyperDic: water_lettuce

English > 1 sense of the expression water lettuce:
NOUNplantwater lettuce, pistia, water cabbage, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoitespantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves
English > water lettuce: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningpantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes.
Synonymspistia, water cabbage, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites
Member ofgenus PistiaOne species
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
Spanishpistia, Pistia stratiotes
Catalanpistia

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