water-plantain family

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water-plantain family - perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants Alismataceae, family Alismataceae liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed Alismales, Naiadales, order Alismales, order Naiadales - an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants Alisma, genus Alisma - small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants genus Sagittaria, Sagittaria - genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers