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GENUS PISTIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pistia mean?
• GENUS PISTIA (noun)
The noun GENUS PISTIA has 1 sense:
1. one species: water lettuce
Familiarity information: GENUS PISTIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: water lettuce
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Pistia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pistia"):
pistia; Pistia stratiotes; Pistia stratoites; water cabbage; water lettuce (pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes)
Holonyms ("genus Pistia" is a member of...):
Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)
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