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Meanings of water orchid in English
Portuguese
jacintos de água 
A tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States.
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Examples for "water hyacinth"
Examples for "water hyacinth"
1
That has led to the rapid growth of invasive plants, particularly water hyacinth.
2
Farm-yard manure is preferred, but castor-cake and the water hyacinth-a weed-constitutegood substitutes.
3
A water hyacinth, and its purple spike topped his head as he stood waist-deep.
4
This toxic run-off has triggered the invasion of a plant species known as the water hyacinth.
5
And a British group used powdered water hyacinth root to clean arsenic out of Bangladeshi groundwater.