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Water lettuce

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Wa´ter let´tuce
1.(Bot.) A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
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Noun1.Water lettuce - pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaveswater lettuce - pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
pistia, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, water cabbage
genus Pistia - one species: water lettuce
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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