GENUS WOLFFIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Wolffia mean? • GENUS WOLFFIA (noun)
The noun GENUS WOLFFIA has 1 sense:
1. minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond
Familiarity information: GENUS WOLFFIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS WOLFFIA (noun)
Meaning:
Minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Wolffia; Wolffia
Hypernyms ("genus Wolffia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Wolffia"):
watermeal (any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world)
Holonyms ("genus Wolffia" is a member of...):
duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)
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