About The Word Water lettuce
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Water lettuce
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What's The Definition Of Water lettuce?
[n] pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
Synonyms | Synonyms for Water lettuce: pistia | Pistia stratiotes | Pistia stratoites | water cabbage Related Terms | Find terms related to Water lettuce: See Also | aquatic plant | genus Pistia | hydrophyte | hydrophytic plant | water plant Water lettuce In Webster's Dictionary \Wa"ter let"tuce\ (Bot.)
A plant ({Pistia stratiotes}) which floats on tropical
waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
--J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
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