Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tropical American herb (Eichhornia crassipes) forming dense floating masses in ponds and streams and having large bluish-purple flowers and leafstalks with greatly inflated bases.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See Piaiopus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Bot.) Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States
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water phrases/words
how water is used
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ENVI - Collocations TUVWXYZ
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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Pests
Feral animals, invasive plants and other pests (in Australia).
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