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Eichhornia

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Eichhornia, water hyacinth, is a genus of aquatic flowering plants in the family Pontederiaceae. [1]

44 relations: Africa, Aquatic plant, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, Cadmium, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Chromium, Cobalt, Cyanide, Eichhornia azurea, Eichhornia crassipes, Elsevier, Eutrophication, Flatworm, Florida, Flower, Flowering plant, Heavy metals, India, Invasive species, Kerala backwaters, Lead, Mercury (element), Mineral (nutrient), Mosquito, New Zealand, Nickel, Nitrification, North America, Oxygen, Papua New Guinea, Parasitism, Perennial plant, Pontederiaceae, Prussia, Schistosomiasis, Snail, South America, Subtropics, Tropicos, Vector (epidemiology), Wastewater treatment, Water hyacinth in Lake Victoria.

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Cadmium

Cadmium is a chemical element with symbol Cd and atomic number 48.

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Carl Sigismund Kunth

Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850), also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist.

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Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24.

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Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27.

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Cyanide

A cyanide is a chemical compound that contains the group C≡N.

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Eichhornia azurea

Eichhornia azurea is a water hyacinth from the Americas, sometimes known as anchored water hyacinth.

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Eichhornia crassipes

Eichhornia crassipes, commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to the Amazon basin, and is often a highly problematic invasive species outside its native range.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.

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Eutrophication

Eutrophication (from Greek eutrophos, "well-nourished"), or hypertrophication, is when a body of water becomes overly enriched with minerals and nutrients that induce excessive growth of plants and algae.

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Flatworm

The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, platy, meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), helminth-, meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Heavy metals

Heavy metals are generally defined as metals with relatively high densities, atomic weights, or atomic numbers.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Kerala backwaters

The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Mineral (nutrient)

In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element required as an essential nutrient by organisms to perform functions necessary for life.

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Mosquito

Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Nitrification

Nitrification is the biological oxidation of ammonia or ammonium to nitrite followed by the oxidation of the nitrite to nitrate.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

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Parasitism

In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Pontederiaceae

Pontederiaceae is a family of flowering plants.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen) was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia.

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Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever and bilharzia, is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes.

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Snail

Snail is a common name loosely applied to shelled gastropods.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Subtropics

The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.

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Tropicos

Tropicos is an online botanical database containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from the Neotropical ecozone (Central, and South America).

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Vector (epidemiology)

In epidemiology, a disease vector is any agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism; most agents regarded as vectors are organisms, such as intermediate parasites or microbes, but it could be an inanimate medium of infection such as dust particles.

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Wastewater treatment

Wastewater treatment is a process used to convert wastewater into an effluent (outflowing of water to a receiving body of water) that can be returned to the water cycle with minimal impact on the environment or directly reused.

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Water hyacinth in Lake Victoria

Water hyacinth has become a major invasive plant species in Lake Victoria and while it is native to the continent of South America, human activity has introduced the greenery to Lake Victoria, where it is claimed to have negatively affected local ecosystems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichhornia

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