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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Pistia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) A plant (
Pistia stratiotes ) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
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