Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun water_orchid

1 sense of water orchid

Sense 1
water hyacinth, water orchid, Eichhornia crassipes, Eichhornia spesiosa -- (a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States)
       => 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)