vallisneria spiralis

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   submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia

   Synonymstape grasseelgrasswild celery

   Broaderaquatic plant

   Part ofVallisneria

Questions about vallisneria spiralis

What does vallisneria spiralis mean?

vallisneria spiralis means "submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia".

What is another word for vallisneria spiralis?

Close synonyms include tape grass, eelgrass, wild celery. 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 vallisneria spiralis a common word?

vallisneria spiralis 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.