Associations to the word «Pickerelweed»

Wiktionary

PICKERELWEED, noun. (US) Any of several freshwater plants, of the genus Pontederia, that have heart-shaped leaves

Dictionary definition

PICKERELWEED, noun. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats