Definition of Pistia stratiotes

1. Noun. Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistia Stratiotes

Pisces
Pisces the Fishes
Piscidia
Piscidia erythrina
Piscidia piscipula
Piscis Australis
Piscis Austrinus
Pisgah
Pisidia
Pisistratus
Pisonia
Pisonia aculeata
Pistacia terebinthus
Pistacia vera
Pistia stratiotes (current term)
Pistia stratoites
Pistoia
Pisum
Pisum arvense
Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum arvense
Pisum sativum macrocarpon
Pita Pita
Pitcairn
Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn Islands
Pitcairner
Pitcairners
Pitcairnese

Literary usage of Pistia stratiotes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"It is also grown to a limited extent in the Visa- yan Islands and is quite commonly cultivated in Camarines. Genus P 1ST IA Pistia stratiotes L. ..."

2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"... and a few smaller plants, as Pistia stratiotes or ... white; N. rosea, bright rose; N. rubra, rosy crimson ; Pistia stratiotes or Water Lettuce, ..."

3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"E, which i» here made to include three Genera:—1. Apiospermum, Kl. (the Pistia obcordata, Schleid. and Kunth = Pistia stratiotes, HBK), native of Brazil. 2. ..."

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