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SAGITTARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sagittaria mean?
• SAGITTARIA (noun)
The noun SAGITTARIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers
Familiarity information: SAGITTARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Sagittaria; Sagittaria
Hypernyms ("Sagittaria" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sagittaria"):
common arrowhead (a weed)
Holonyms ("Sagittaria" is a member of...):
Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family (perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants)
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