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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States;
[syn: water hyacinth, water orchid, Eichhornia crassipes, Eichhornia spesiosa]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Water hyacinth \Wa"ter hy"a*cinth\ (Bot.) Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

water hyacinth n 1: a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States [syn: water hyacinth, water orchid, Eichhornia crassipes, Eichhornia spesiosa]