English noun: water lettuce | |||
1. | water lettuce (plant) pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes | ||
Synonyms | pistia, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, water cabbage | ||
Broader (hypernym) | aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant | ||
Member meronym | genus Pistia | ||