WATERWHEEL PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waterwheel plant mean? 

• WATERWHEEL PLANT (noun)
  The noun WATERWHEEL PLANT has 1 sense:

1. floating aquatic carnivorous perennial of central and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia having whorls of 6 to 9 leaves ending in hinged lobes for capturing e.g. water fleas

  Familiarity information: WATERWHEEL PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERWHEEL PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Floating aquatic carnivorous perennial of central and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia having whorls of 6 to 9 leaves ending in hinged lobes for capturing e.g. water fleas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aldrovanda vesiculosa; waterwheel plant

Hypernyms ("waterwheel plant" is a kind of...):

carnivorous plant (plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals)

Holonyms ("waterwheel plant" is a member of...):

Aldrovanda; genus Aldrovanda (one species: waterwheel plant)