ALLIGATOR WEED


Meaning of ALLIGATOR WEED in English

noun

or alligator grass

Etymology: so called from its long narrow leaves

: a prolific herbaceous weed ( Alternanthera phylloxeroides ) having opposite entire linear-lanceolate leaves and flowers in short headlike spikes and being especially troublesome in irrigation canals and waterways which it clogs with a dense floating mass

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