water gillyflower

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

   SynonymsAmerican featherfoilHottonia inflata

   Broaderfeatherfoil

Questions about water gillyflower

What does water gillyflower mean?

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

What is another word for water gillyflower?

Close synonyms include American featherfoil, Hottonia inflata. 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 water gillyflower a common word?

water gillyflower 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.