Water-plantain definitions

Any of various aquatic plants of the genus Alisma, having narrow to ovate leaves and branched panicles with whorls of small flowers.
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Any of a family (Alismataceae, order Alismatales) of hardy, monocotyledonous water plants with large, heart-shaped leaves and small, usually white, flowers.
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Any of several plants, of the genus Alisma, that inhabit marshy places.
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Sentence Examples

  • - Water Plantain (Alisma Plantago).

  • On our August 2002 trip we found several new plants, including black nightshade, pink water speedwell, water plantain and dwarf spurge.

  • Rare plants such as large bitter cress, lanceolate water plantain and elongated sedge grow where the wood is wettest.

  • Current status floating water plantain is found only in Europe.

  • The flower-bearing stem is tall; the flowers are borne in whorls on the axis as in arrow-head, on whorled branchlets as in water plantain or in an umbel as in Butomus (fig.

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