Elatine
noun
Elat·i·ne
ə̇ˈlatᵊnˌē
: a genus (the type of the family Elatinaceae) of aquatic or amphibious creeping herbs having dimerous to tetramerous flowers
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin, a kind of plant, from Greek elatinē, from feminine of elatinos of the silver fir, from elatē silver fir; perhaps akin to Armenian elevin cedar, Russian yalovets juniper
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