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PONTEDERIA CORDATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pontederia cordata mean? 

PONTEDERIA CORDATA (noun)
  The noun PONTEDERIA CORDATA has 1 sense:

1. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and pondsplay

  Familiarity information: PONTEDERIA CORDATA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PONTEDERIA CORDATA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pickerel weed; pickerelweed; Pontederia cordata; wampee

Hypernyms ("Pontederia cordata" 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 ("Pontederia cordata" is a member of...):

genus Pontederia; Pontederia (pickerelweed)


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