water milfoil

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   an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers

   Broaderaquatic plant

   Part ofMyriophyllum

Questions about water milfoil

What does water milfoil mean?

water milfoil means "an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers".

Is water milfoil a common word?

water milfoil 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.