water orchid

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   a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States

   Synonymswater hyacinthEichhornia crassipesEichhornia spesiosa

   Broaderaquatic plant

   Part ofEichhornia

Questions about water orchid

What does water orchid mean?

water orchid means "a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States".

What is another word for water orchid?

Close synonyms include water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, Eichhornia spesiosa. 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 orchid a common word?

water orchid 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.