water lobelia

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   erect perennial aquatic herb of Europe and North America having submerged spongy leaves and pendulous racemes of blue flowers above the water

   SynonymsLobelia dortmanna

   Broaderlobelia

Questions about water lobelia

What does water lobelia mean?

water lobelia means "erect perennial aquatic herb of Europe and North America having submerged spongy leaves and pendulous racemes of blue flowers above the water".

What is another word for water lobelia?

Close synonyms include Lobelia dortmanna. 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 lobelia a common word?

water lobelia 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.