WATER MILFOIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water milfoil mean? 

• WATER MILFOIL (noun)
  The noun WATER MILFOIL has 1 sense:

1. an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers

  Familiarity information: WATER MILFOIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER MILFOIL (noun)

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Meaning:

An aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("water milfoil" 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 ("water milfoil" is a member of...):

genus Myriophyllum; Myriophyllum (chiefly monoecious and usually aquatic herbs (as the milfoils))