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Water lettuce

Water lettuce Meaning & Definition
Water lettuce Definition And Meaning

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

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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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