pistia stratiotes

What does pistia stratiotes mean?

pistia stratiotes means "pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes".

What is another word for pistia stratiotes?

Close synonyms include pistia, water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratoites. 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 pistia stratiotes a common word?

pistia stratiotes 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pistia stratiotes come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.