NOUN
- pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
How To Use pistia In A Sentence
- Pistia, a free-floating aquatic plant, was used because it produces an abundance of Ca oxalate crystals and rapidly assimilates reagents provided in liquid growth media.
- Other shallow water vegetation includes floating carpets of Pistia stratiotes, Neptunia oleracea, Ipomoea reptans and Najas graminea. Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
- Pistia stratiotes L. is a free-floating aquatic angiosperm that can reproduce rapidly by vegetative offshoots from stolons.