feather-foil

Definitions of feather-foil

1. noun

   a plant of the genus Hottonia
   synonyms: featherfoil

   types:

   American featherfoil, Hottonia inflata, water gillyflower

   a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers

   Hottonia palustris, water violet

   featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers

   type of:

   aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant

   a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth