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noun
A floating aquatic plant, of species Pistia stratiotes, with green rosettes of leaves and inconspicuous flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: water lettuce, water cabbage
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Moluccella laevis, a plant in the mint family grown for its distinctive circular green calyxes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: bells of Ireland, Molucca balm
Antonyms: none provided
noun
cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shall-flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia speciosa, Languas speciosa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ginger
noun
showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shell-flower, turtlehead, snakehead, snake-head, Chelone glabra
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant
History
From shell + flower.
