noun
aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and a spadix resembling a club covered with tiny yellow flowers
• Syn: ↑Orontium aquaticum
• Hypernyms: ↑aquatic plant, ↑water plant, ↑hydrophyte, ↑hydrophytic plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Orontium, ↑genus Orontium
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noun : an American aquatic plant (Orontium aquaticum) of the family Araceae with a spadix of minute yellow flowers
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an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
[1830-40; Amer.]
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golden club,
an aquatic plant of the arum family bearing a yellow, club-shaped spadix. It is found along the Atlantic coast from Florida to southern New England.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.