Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

water hyacinth

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English

Syllables: wa-ter hy-acinth
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the genus Pontederia (syn. Eichhornia) of aquatic flowering plants.

noun

Any of the genus Pontederia (syn. Eichhornia) of aquatic flowering plants.

Inflected Forms

water hyacinths (plural)

Synonyms

pickerel weed wampee water orchid eichhornia crassipes eichhornia spesiosa

Questions

What does water hyacinth mean?: Any of the genus Pontederia (syn. Eichhornia) of aquatic flowering plants.

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