Feather-foil

Feath´er-foil`

n.

1.

(Bot.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

feather-foil - a plant of the genus Hottonia         featherfoil genus Hottonia, Hottonia - aquatic herbs American featherfoil, Hottonia inflata, water gillyflower - a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers Hottonia palustris, water violet - featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers 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