Found 2 items, similar to Pontederia cordata.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Pontederia cordata
Pontederia cordata
n : American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in
shallow water of streams and ponds [syn:
pickerelweed,
pickerel weed,
wampee]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pontederia cordata
Pickerel
\Pick"er*el\, n. [Dim. of
Pike.] [Written also
pickerell.]
1. A young or small pike. [Obs.]
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Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel.
--Chaucer.
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2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the
genus
Esox, esp. the smaller species.
(b) The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See
Wall-eye.
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Note: The federation, or chain, pickerel (
Esox reticulatus)
and the brook pickerel (
Esox Americanus) are the most
common American species. They are used for food, and
are noted for their voracity. About the Great Lakes the
pike is called pickerel.
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Pickerel weed (Bot.), a blue-flowered aquatic plant
(
Pontederia cordata) having large arrow-shaped leaves.
So called because common in slow-moving waters where
pickerel are often found.
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