water lettuce

Other forms: water lettuces

Definitions of water lettuce
  1. noun
    pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
    synonyms: Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, pistia, water cabbage
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    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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