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Definition of Pistia
1. Noun. Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes.
Group relationships: Genus Pistia
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistia
Literary usage of Pistia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"In 1874 Hegel- maier 9 described the absence of a suspensor in pistia, ...
Even if this pistia type should prove to be characteristic of the Araceae, ..."
2. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1899)
"Found in such enormous quantities that it is collected in baskets with the pistia,
which is as plentiful, and used as manure. 14 Sept. 1854. No. 211. 3. ..."
3. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"... pistia stratiotes, Linn., Rheede Hort. 3/a/. xi., t. 32; Roxb. Cor. PI. 3, i.
268. Vernacular. ..."
4. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"It is also grown to a limited extent in the Visa- yan Islands and is quite commonly
cultivated in Camarines. Genus P 1ST IA pistia STRATIOTES L. ..."
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