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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cosmopolitan aquatic herb (Brasenia schreberi) having floating elliptic or ovate leaves and a gelatinous coating on the stems and the undersides of the leaves.
- noun Any of several fanworts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) An aquatic American plant (
Brasenia peltata ) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
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