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pickerelweed

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pick·er·el·weed  (pkr-l-wd, pkrl-)
n.
A freshwater plant (Pontederia cordata) of eastern North America, having heart-shaped leaves with long petioles and spikes of violet-blue flowers.

pickerelweed [ˈpɪkərəlˌwiːd ˈpɪkrəl-]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several North American freshwater plants of the genus Pontederia, esp P. cordata, having arrow-shaped leaves and purple flowers: family Pontederiaceae
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Noun1.pickerelweedpickerelweed - American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
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


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By the way there came up a shower, which compelled me to stand half an hour under a pine, piling boughs over my head, and wearing my handkerchief for a shed; and when at length I had made one cast over the pickerelweed, standing up to my middle in water, I found myself suddenly in the shadow of a cloud, and the thunder began to rumble with such emphasis that I could do no more than listen to it.
 
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