pistia stratoites

What does pistia stratoites mean?

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

What is another word for pistia stratoites?

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

pistia stratoites 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 stratoites come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.