hottonia inflata

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   a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers

   Synonymswater gillyflowerAmerican featherfoil

   Broaderfeatherfoil

Questions about hottonia inflata

What does hottonia inflata mean?

hottonia inflata means "a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers".

What is another word for hottonia inflata?

Close synonyms include water gillyflower, American featherfoil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hottonia inflata a common word?

hottonia inflata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.