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Pickerelweed

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Noun

1. pickerel weed, pickerelweed, pontederia cordata, wampee

American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pickerelweed

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noun
any of several North American freshwater plants of the genus Pontederia, esp P. cordata, having arrow-shaped leaves and purple flowers: family Pontederiaceae

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Pickerelweed

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noun
1.  US
any of a genus (Pontederia) of North American aquatic plants of the pickerelweed family, esp. a species (P. cordata) with arrow-shaped leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers, found in shallow waters
adjective
2. 
designating a family (Pontederiaceae, order Liliales) of monocotyledonous, freshwater plants, including the water hyacinth

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pickerelweed

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n.
A freshwater plant (Pontederia cordata) of eastern North America, having heart-shaped leaves with long petioles and spikes of violet-blue flowers.

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