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• noun an aquatic plant of the genus Peltandra; North America
  

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• noun tufted perennial found in shallow water or marshland; sometimes poisons livestock
  Triglochin maritima.
  

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Ar"row grass` noun

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1. (Bot.) An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

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• noun a variety of aster
  

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• noun closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia
  Viburnum recognitum.
  
• noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
  arrow wood; Viburnum dentatum.
  

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• noun a family of monocotyledonous bog herbs of order Naiadales
  Scheuchzeriaceae; family Scheuchzeriaceae; Juncaginaceae; family Juncaginaceae.
  

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• adjective satellite (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes
  sagittiform; sagittate.
  

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• noun a weapon consisting of arrows and the bow to shoot them
  

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• noun an arrowhead mark identifying British government property
  
• noun a mark shaped like an arrowhead; used to mark convicts' clothing
  
• noun an arrow with a wide barbed head
  

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• originally a pheon. See Pheon, and Broad arrow under Arrow.
• . (a) An arrow with a broad head. (b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.

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• a flint arrowhead; so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot.

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• noun perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
  tuckahoe; Peltandra virginica.
  

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• an arrow, rocket, or shot, for carrying an attached line to a vessel in distress in order to save life.

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• an arrow discharged at an enemy when retreating from him, as was the custom of the ancient Parthians; hence, a parting shot.

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• noun medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits
  Acocanthera oblongifolia; winter sweet; Acocanthera spectabilis.
  

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Sea" ar"row

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1. (Zoöl.) A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid.

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• noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
  arrow wood; Viburnum dentatum.
  

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• noun a frank and honest person
  square shooter; straight shooter.
  

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