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FLOATING-MOSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does floating-moss mean? 

FLOATING-MOSS (noun)
  The noun FLOATING-MOSS has 1 sense:

1. free-floating aquatic fernsplay

  Familiarity information: FLOATING-MOSS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLOATING-MOSS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Free-floating aquatic ferns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

floating-moss; Salvinia auriculata; Salvinia rotundifolia

Hypernyms ("floating-moss" is a kind of...):

aquatic fern; water fern (ferns that grow in water)

Holonyms ("floating-moss" is a member of...):

genus Salvinia; Salvinia (type genus of the Salviniaceae: water ferns)


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