Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A freshwater plant (Pontederia cordata) of eastern North America, having heart-shaped leaves with long petioles and spikes of violet-blue flowers.
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- noun US Any of several
freshwater plants , of the genus Pontederia, that have heart-shaped leaves
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- noun American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another major problem in the region is water hyacinth, also known as pickerelweed, which is choking Lake Victoria, Africa's largest.
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The tidal marshes are dominated by narrowleaf cattail, wild rice, spatterdock and pickerelweed.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York 2008
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Cattail, wild rice, pickerelweed, and arrowhead are common and help support a large and diverse range of bird and fish species, among other wildlife.
Wetland 2008
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And in the water was pickerelweed not yet in bloom and bright yellow bullhead lilies.
landshift in alleys of tall meadow rue asakiyume 2007
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They usually fill with marsh plants such as arrowhead, water arum, and pickerelweed.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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They usually fill with marsh plants such as arrowhead, water arum, and pickerelweed.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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They usually fill with marsh plants such as arrowhead, water arum, and pickerelweed.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Cattail, wild rice, pickerelweed, and arrowhead are common and help support a large and diverse range of bird and fish species, among other wildlife.
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Two beneficial plants Cassani said can be installed around lake margins are bulrush - sometimes called buggywhips - and lower growing pickerelweed, which produces beautiful blue flower spikes.
unknown title 2009
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The NRS units planted with calla lily had lower nutrient removal than canna and pickerelweed.
chained_bear commented on the word pickerelweed
"The fresh green of arrowhead and pickerelweed rimmed the banks, some plants dragged out of the soil by the rising water and whirled downstream, more hanging on by their roots for dear life, leaves trailing in the racing wash."
—Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone (New York: Delacorte Press, 2009), 85
December 17, 2009