FEATHER-FOIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feather-foil mean? 

• FEATHER-FOIL (noun)
  The noun FEATHER-FOIL has 1 sense:

1. a plant of the genus Hottonia

  Familiarity information: FEATHER-FOIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEATHER-FOIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Hottonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

feather-foil; featherfoil

Hypernyms ("feather-foil" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feather-foil"):

American featherfoil; Hottonia inflata; water gillyflower (a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers)

Hottonia palustris; water violet (featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers)

Holonyms ("feather-foil" is a member of...):

genus Hottonia; Hottonia (aquatic herbs)