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FROGBIT FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frogbit family mean?
• FROGBIT FAMILY (noun)
The noun FROGBIT FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed
Familiarity information: FROGBIT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frog's-bit family; frogbit family; Hydrocharidaceae; Hydrocharitaceae
Hypernyms ("frogbit family" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "frogbit family"):
genus Hydrocharis; Hydrocharis (frogbit)
genus Hydrilla (one species)
genus Limnobium; Limnobium (American frogbit)
ditchmoss; Elodea; genus Elodea; pondweed (submerged freshwater perennials)
Egeria; genus Egeria (small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants)
genus Vallisneria; Vallisneria (eelgrass; eel grass)
Holonyms ("frogbit family" is a member of...):
Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)
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