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featherfoil

Definitions of featherfoil
  1. noun
    a plant of the genus Hottonia
    synonyms: feather-foil
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    types:
    American featherfoil, Hottonia inflata, water gillyflower
    a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers
    Hottonia palustris, water violet
    featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers
    type of:
    aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant
    a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth
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