water pimpernel

Definitions of water pimpernel
  1. noun
    a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus
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    types:
    Samolus valerandii, brookweed
    water pimpernel of Europe to China
    Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus, brookweed
    American water pimpernel
    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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