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Dictionary entry overview: What does pistia mean?

• PISTIA (noun)
The noun PISTIA has 1 sense:

1. pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes

Familiarity information: PISTIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PISTIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pistia; Pistia stratiotes; Pistia stratoites; water cabbage; water lettuce

Hypernyms ("pistia" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Holonyms ("pistia" is a member of...):

genus Pistia (one species: water lettuce)

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PISTIA: related words searches

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