pistia stratiotes

Questions about pistia stratiotes

What is another word for pistia stratiotes?

It depends which pistia stratiotes you mean. In the sense “pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes”, the synonyms are pistia, water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratoites. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pistia stratiotes?

WordNet records no antonym for pistia stratiotes. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pistia stratiotes come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for pistia stratiotesAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pistia stratiotesWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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