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NOUN:
  1. A cosmopolitan aquatic herb (Brasenia schreberi) having floating elliptic or ovate leaves and purplish flowers.
  2. Any of several New World aquatic herbs of the genus Cabomba, having entire, alternate floating leaves and finely divided, opposite or whorled submersed leaves.



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