HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hydrilla verticillata mean? 

• HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA (noun)
  The noun HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA has 1 sense:

1. submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida's waterways

  Familiarity information: HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida's waterways

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hydrilla; Hydrilla verticillata

Hypernyms ("Hydrilla verticillata" 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 ("Hydrilla verticillata" is a member of...):

genus Hydrilla (one species)