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ELODEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Elodea mean?
• ELODEA (noun)
The noun ELODEA has 1 sense:
1. submerged freshwater perennials
Familiarity information: ELODEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Submerged freshwater perennials
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
ditchmoss; Elodea; genus Elodea; pondweed
Hypernyms ("Elodea" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Elodea"):
waterweed (a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea)
Holonyms ("Elodea" is a member of...):
family Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frog's-bit family; frogbit family; Hydrocharidaceae; Hydrocharitaceae (simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed)
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