PIPEWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pipewort mean? 

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

1. aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPEWORT (noun)

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Meaning:

Aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eriocaulon aquaticum; pipewort

Hypernyms ("pipewort" 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 ("pipewort" is a member of...):

Eriocaulon; genus Eriocaulon (type genus of the Eriocaulaceae: rushlike aquatic or marginal perennials usually found in shallow waters of acid lakes and pools and bogs)