Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pistia
1 sense of pistia
Sense 1
pistia, water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites -- (pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes)
=> aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant -- (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)