Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of aquatic plants, known as water-shields, of the natural order Nymphæaccæ, with small shield-shaped floating leaves and finely dissected submerged ones, and small trimerous flowers.

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  • noun alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish.]

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Examples

  • The aquatic plants of the neighborhood may be kept in the aquarium, -- such things as myriophyllums, charas, eel-grass, duckmeats or lemnas, cabomba or fish grass, arrow-leafs or sagittaria, and the like; also the parrot's feather, to be bought of florists (a species of myriophyllum).

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

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  • Also known as fanwort.

    October 4, 2009