noun
American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
• Syn: ↑pickerel weed, ↑wampee, ↑Pontederia cordata
• Hypernyms: ↑aquatic plant, ↑water plant, ↑hydrophyte, ↑hydrophytic plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pontederia, ↑genus Pontederia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.