| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Noun | 1. Water hyacinth; water orchid.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "Eichhornia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
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| Eichhornia crassipes | A tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Eichhornia spesiosa | A tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Genus Eichhornia | Water hyacinth; water orchid. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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| Eichhornia crassipes | Botanical | 1: Liquefied leaves may be taken as a tonic with no apparent harm.the younger parts serve as a potherb. Swollen leaf bases have been eaten deep-fried. Also eaten by cattle, this makes good organic fertilizer, tons of which are scraped up annually by the Panama Canal dredging division (!). (references) | |
| 2: Liquified leaves may be taken as a tonic with no apparent harm. the younger parts serve as a potherb. Swollen leaf bases have been eaten deep-fried. Also eaten by cattle, this makes good organic fertilizer, tons of which are scraped up annually by the Panama Canad dredging division (!). (references) | |||
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| Eichhornia crassipes | 19 | Eichhornia crassipes | 19 | |
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genus Eichhornia, water hyacinth, water orchid. | |
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