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AMERICAN FROGBIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American frogbit mean? 

AMERICAN FROGBIT (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN FROGBIT has 1 sense:

1. American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditchesplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN FROGBIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN FROGBIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American frogbit; Limnodium spongia

Hypernyms ("American frogbit" 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 ("American frogbit" is a member of...):

genus Limnobium; Limnobium (American frogbit)


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