water-plantain family

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1.water-plantain family - perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plantsAlismataceae, family Alismataceaeliliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedAlismales, Naiadales, order Alismales, order Naiadales - an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plantsAlisma, genus Alisma - small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plantsgenus Sagittaria, Sagittaria - genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers