CABOMBA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cabomba mean? 

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

1. alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CABOMBA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cabomba; genus Cabomba

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Cabomba"):

Cabomba caroliniana; fanwort; water-shield (common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers)

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

Cabombaceae; subfamily Cabombaceae; water-shield family (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia)