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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cosmopolitan aquatic herb (Brasenia schreberi) having floating elliptic or ovate leaves and a gelatinous coating on the stems and the undersides of the leaves.
  • noun Any of several fanworts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Bot.) An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.

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