Definition of Pickerel weed

1. Noun. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickerel Weed

picked
picked-strings
picked up
pickedness
pickeer
pickeered
pickeerer
pickeerers
pickeering
pickeers
pickelhaube
picker
picker's nodules
pickerel
pickerel frog
pickerel weed (current term)
pickerels
pickerelweed
pickerelweed family
pickerelweeds
pickeries
pickering
pickeringite
pickers
pickery
picket
picket boat
picket fence
picket fences
picket line

Literary usage of Pickerel weed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"... 1688-1757, professor of botany in Padua.] Seven or eight species, natives of America. 1. Pontederia cordata L. Pickerel-weed. (Fig. 915. ..."

2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"PONTEDERIA, pickerel weed. (J. Pontedera, an early Italian botanist.) P. cordata. Linn. COMMON P. Everywhere in shallow water ; stem l°-2° high, ..."

3. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"Pickerel-weed. Pontederia: plant dedicated to Pontedera, a professor at ... Tall plants of Pickerel-weed massed on the edges of deep blue ponds or even ..."

4. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"PONTEDERIA, pickerel weed. (J. Pontedera, an early Italian botanist.) P. cordata, Linn. COMMON P. Everywhere in shallow water; stem l°-2° high, naked below, ..."

5. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"A somewhat common green-house member of the pickerel-weed family is known as the water-hyacinth and is similar in its flowering clusters to the rather rare ..."

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