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from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An order of monocotyledonous plants, consisting of aquatic or marsh herbs with unisexual flowers, the parts of which are usually unequal in number. It embraces 7 families of which the Naiadaceæ, Potamogetonaceæ, Alismaceæ, and Yallisneriaceæ are the chief.
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- n. an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants
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