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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

waterleaf

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
wa-ter-leaf
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.

noun

Any plant of Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family.

noun

A tropical plant (Talinum fruticosum), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.

noun

A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture

noun

An absorbent unsized paper, somewhat like blotter paper.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From water + leaf.

Inflected Forms

waterleafs (plural) waterleaves (plural) water-leaf (alternative)

Phrases

ballhead waterleaf ball-headed waterleaf blunt-leaf waterleaf bluntleaf waterleaf Brown's waterleaf dwarf waterleaf Fendler's waterleaf great waterleaf

Synonyms

cariru Ceylon spinach Florida spinach Lagos bologi potherb fameflower Philippine spinach Surinam purslane sweetheart

Questions

What does waterleaf mean?
Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
Where does waterleaf come from?
From water + leaf.

How to pronounce waterleaf

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