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ca·bom·ba

(kə-bŏm′bə)

[New Latin Cabomba, genus name (created in 1775 by French botanist Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1720-1778) in the first scientific description of C. aquatica), perhaps from an indigenous term in French Guiana.]

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cabomba

(kəˈbɒmbə)

(Plants) any of several aquatic plants of the genus Cabomba of the family Cabombaceae, having both submerged and floating leaves

[New Latin, from Spanish]

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Cabomba - alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants

genus Cabomba

magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms

Cabombaceae, subfamily Cabombaceae, water-shield family - in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia

Cabomba caroliniana, fanwort, water-shield - common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers

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kabomba

kabombajurt

kabomba

水盾草鱼草

cabomba

(kəˈbəmbə) noun

an aquatic plant with feathery leaves.

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The harvester will collect floating weeds, the majority of which is Salvinia molesta, taking care not to shred the rooted Cabomba caroliniana as any disturbance speeds its spread.

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Amhorella, Cabomba, Trimenia: Endress & Sampson, 1983; Endress & Igersheim, 2000).

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Common name Scientific Name PROHIBITED PLANTS Fanwort Cabomba caroliniana Brazilian waterweed Egeria densa Hydrilla/water thyme Hydrilla verticillata Parrot feather Myriophyllum aquaticum Eurasian water milfoil Myriophyllum spicatum Curly leaf pond weed Potamogeton crispus PROHIBITED ANIMALS Northern snakehead Channa argus Bullseye snakehead Channa marulius Giant snakehead Channa micropeltes Walking catfish Clarias batrachus Oriental weatherfish Misgurnus anguillicaudatus REGULATED ANIMALS Goldfish Carassius auratus Common lionfish Pterois miles Red lionfish Pterois volitans

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Ashraf, "Arsenic, zinc, and aluminium removal from gold mine wastewater effluents and accumulation by submerged aquatic plants (Cabomba piauhyensis, Egeria densa, and Hydrilla verticillata)," BioMed Research International, vol.

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A total of seven plant species were found, and belong to seven families: Characeae (Chara sp.) (S), Salviniaceae (Salvinia auriculata Aubl.) (F), Cabombaceae (Cabomba aquatica Aubl.) (S), Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaea pulchella DC Syst.) (F), Poaceae (Leersia cf.

Interacciones entre las diferentes formas biologicas de los macrofitos acuaticos en un reservorio eutrofico tropical del Noreste de Brasil

Biosorption of Cr (III) and Cr (VI) species from aqueous solution by Cabomba caroliniana: kinetic and equilibrium study.

Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Laboratory-Scale Phytoremediation System Using Eichhornia Crassipes for the Treatment of Chromium-Contaminated Waters/Diseno, Desarrollo y Evaluacion de una Tecnologia de Fitorremediacion a Escala de Laboratorio Utilizando la Eichhornia Crassipes para el Tratamiento de Aguas Contaminadas con Cromo

The lake consists of some open water but the rest is made up of a mix of water lilies and dollar bonnets on the surface and submerged plants such as purple cabomba below.

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Amaral, "Microsatellite markers isolated from Cabomba aquatica s.L.

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Free-floating macrophytes (e.g., Eicchornia crassipes,Pistia stratiotes and Salvinia spp) are most common in several Neotropical man-made-lakes, but submersed and emergent species also occur frequently, for instance: Egeria najas,Egeria densa, Utricularia ssp, Cabomba furcata, Najas sp, Eichhornia azurea, Eleocharis ssp, Ludwigia spp, Oxycaryum cubense, Echinochloa polystachya and Typha domingensis (Vilarrubia and Cova, 1993; Bini et al., 1999; Pompeo et al., 2001; Tanaka et al., 2002; Marcondes et al., 2003; Bini et al., 2005; Thomaz et al., 2006, 2009a, 2009b; Martins et al., 2008; Bianchini Junior et al., 2010).

Morphometry and retention time as forcing functions to establishment and maintenance of aquatic macrophytes in a tropical reservoir/Morfometria e tempo de residencia como fatores determinantes no estabelecimento e manutencao de macrofitas aquaticas em um reservatorio tropical

Fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana) is an invasive aquatic weed in California that was introduced through the aquarium industry.