WordNet 3.0 Vocabulary Helper: spatterdock
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Overview of noun spatterdock
The noun spatterdock has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
- 1. spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena -- (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)
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Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spatterdock
1 sense of spatterdock
Sense 1
spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena -- (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)
- water lily -- (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)
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Member Holonyms of noun spatterdock
1 sense of spatterdock
Sense 1
spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena -- (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)
MEMBER OF: Nuphar, genus Nuphar -- (spatterdocks)
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Holonyms of noun spatterdock
1 sense of spatterdock
Sense 1
spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena -- (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)
MEMBER OF: Nuphar, genus Nuphar -- (spatterdocks)
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Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun spatterdock
1 sense of spatterdock
Sense 1
spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena -- (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)
- water lily -- (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)
- water nymph, fragrant water lily, pond lily, Nymphaea odorata -- (a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions)
- European white lily, Nymphaea alba -- (a water lily with white flowers)
- lotus, white lotus, Egyptian water lily, white lily, Nymphaea lotus -- (white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians)
- blue lotus, Nymphaea caerulea -- (blue Egyptian lotus: held sacred by the Egyptians)
- blue lotus, Nymphaea stellata -- (blue lotus of India and southeastern Asia)
- spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena -- (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)
- southern spatterdock, Nuphar sagittifolium -- (of flowing waters of the southeastern United States; may form obstructive mats in streams)
- yellow water lily, Nuphar lutea -- (a water lily with yellow flowers)
- lotus, Indian lotus, sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera -- (native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers)
- water chinquapin, American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea -- (water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds)
- water-shield, fanwort, Cabomba caroliniana -- (common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers)
- water-shield, Brasenia schreberi, water-target -- (aquatic plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers; in lakes and slow-moving streams; suitable for aquariums)
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Meronyms of noun spatterdock
1 sense of spatterdock
Sense 1
spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena -- (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)
- water lily -- (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)
HAS PART: lily pad -- (floating leaves of a water lily)
- aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant -- (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)
HAS PART: pad -- (the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily))
- vascular plant, tracheophyte -- (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)
HAS PART: vascular system -- (the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant)
HAS PART: vessel, vas -- (a tube in which a body fluid circulates)
HAS PART: vascular tissue -- (tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants)
HAS PART: duct -- (a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls)
HAS PART: vascular tissue -- (tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants)
- plant, flora, plant life -- ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
HAS PART: hood, cap -- (a protective covering that is part of a plant)
HAS PART: plant part, plant structure -- (any part of a plant or fungus)
- organism, being -- (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue -- (part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function)
HAS PART: cell -- ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane -- (a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell; ``all cells have a cell membrane''
)
HAS PART: energid, protoplast -- (a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts)
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol -- (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)
HAS PART: cytoskeleton -- (a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence)
HAS PART: microsome -- (a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA)
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome -- (a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions))
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon -- (a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction)
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole -- (a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis)
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule -- (the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses into chromosomes)
HAS PART: achromatin -- (the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes)
HAS PART: linin -- (an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended)
HAS PART: chromosome -- (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; ``humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes''
)
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser -- (the particular part of a chromosome that is associated with a nucleolus after nuclear division)
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule -- (the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses into chromosomes)
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor -- ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; ``genes were formerly called factors''
)
HAS PART: chromatid -- (one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis)
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore -- (a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape; ``the centromere is difficult to sequence''
)
HAS PART: telomere -- (either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome; ``telomeres act as caps to keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together''
)
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ -- (a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; ``the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus''
)
HAS PART: vacuole -- (a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell)
HAS PART: body part -- (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
HAS PART: corpus -- (the main part of an organ or other bodily structure)
- living thing, animate thing -- (a living (or once living) entity)
- whole, unit -- (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; ``how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit''
)
HAS PART: part, portion -- (something less than the whole of a human artifact; ``the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together''
)
HAS PART: section, segment -- (one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; ``a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road''
)
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Holonyms of noun spatterdock
1 sense of spatterdock
Sense 1
spatterdock, cow lily, yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena -- (common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water)
MEMBER OF: Nuphar, genus Nuphar -- (spatterdocks)
MEMBER OF: Nymphaeaceae, family Nymphaeaceae, water-lily family -- (dicot aquatic plants)
MEMBER OF: Ranales, order Ranales, Ranunculales, order Ranunculales -- (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)
MEMBER OF: Magnoliidae, subclass Magnoliidae, ranalian complex -- (a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder)
MEMBER OF: Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida -- (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)
MEMBER OF: Angiospermae, class Angiospermae, Magnoliophyta, division Magnoliophyta, Anthophyta, division Anthophyta -- (comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta))
MEMBER OF: Spermatophyta, division Spermatophyta -- (seed plants; comprises the Angiospermae (or Magnoliophyta) and Gymnospermae (or Gymnospermophyta); in some classification systems Spermatophyta is coordinate with Pteridophyta (spore producing plants having vascular tissue and roots) and Bryophyta (spore producing plants lacking vascular tissue and roots))
MEMBER OF: Plantae, kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom -- ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)
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