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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

e•lo•de•a n.

Plant Biologyany of several New World submersed aquatic plants of the genus Elodea, having numerous, usually whorled leaves. Also called anacharis, ditchmoss, waterweed.

Neo-Latin (1803), equivalent. to Greek (h)eló̄d(ēs) marshy (derivative of hélos marsh; see -ode¹) + Neo-Latin -ea -ea

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anacharis - ditch-moss - waterweed

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