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Meaning of "cabomba" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CABOMBA

cabomba  [kəˈbɒmbə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CABOMBA

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cabomba is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CABOMBA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cabomba

Cabomba is an aquatic plant genus, one of two belonging to the family Cabombaceae. It has divided submerged leaves in the shape of a fan and is much favoured by aquarists as an ornamental and oxygenating plant for fishtanks. Use in the aquarium trade has led to some species being introduced to parts of the world, such as Australia, where they have become pestilential weeds.

Definition of cabomba in the English dictionary

The definition of cabomba in the dictionary is any of several aquatic plants of the genus Cabomba of the family Cabombaceae, having both submerged and floating leaves.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CABOMBA


amber
ˈæmbə
chamber
ˈtʃeɪmbə
cucumber
ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə
December
dɪˈsɛmbə
ember
ˈɛmbə
limba
ˈlɪmbə
lumber
ˈlʌmbə
member
ˈmɛmbə
November
nəʊˈvɛmbə
number
ˈnʌmbə
omber
ˈɒmbə
ombre
ˈɒmbə
remember
rɪˈmɛmbə
samba
ˈsæmbə
September
sɛpˈtɛmbə
sombre
ˈsɒmbə
timber
ˈtɪmbə
zambomba
zæmˈbɒmbə
Zomba
ˈzɒmbə
Zumba
ˈzʊmbə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CABOMBA

cablevision
cableway
cabling
cabman
cabmen
cabob
caboc
caboceer
caboched
cabochon
caboodle
caboose
Cabora Bassa
Cabot
cabotage
cabover
Cabral
cabretta
cabrie
cabrilla

WORDS THAT END LIKE CABOMBA

Bemba
caramba
Cochabamba
Columba
dicamba
gamba
hamba
kalimba
Lumumba
Macumba
mamba
marimba
Moomba
Pemba
rhumba
rumba
shamba
Sumba
Toowoomba
viola da gamba

Synonyms and antonyms of cabomba in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cabomba» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CABOMBA

Find out the translation of cabomba to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cabomba from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cabomba» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

水盾
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Cabomba
570 millions of speakers

English

cabomba
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cabomba
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cabomba
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Cabomba
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Cabomba
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cabomba
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cabomba
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cabomba
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cabomba
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カボンバ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cabomba
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cabomba
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cabomba
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cabomba
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅबॉम्बा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cabomba
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cabomba
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Cabomba
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Cabomba
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cabomba
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Cabomba
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cabomba
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Cabomba
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Cabomba
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cabomba

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CABOMBA»

The term «cabomba» is regularly used and occupies the 84.074 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CABOMBA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cabomba

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CABOMBA»

Discover the use of cabomba in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cabomba and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and ...
Osborn and Schneider (1988) have shown that the flowers are primarily wind- pollinated, In Cabomba, the flowers (ca. 2.0 cm in diameter) are axillary to extra- axillary (i.e. attached to the axis laterally to a specific leaf, but retaining a vascular  ...
Klaus Kubitzki, Jens G. Rohwer, Volker Bittrich, 1993
2
Noxious Weeds of Australia
Two genera and about eight species of perennial aquatic herbs mostly originating in the Americas. Several are used as aquarium plants. Useful plants: aquarium plants fanworts Cabomba spp. Noxious weed: cabomba, fanwort Cabomba ...
William Thomas Parsons, Eric George Cuthbertson, 2001
3
Cabomba Control Manual: Current Management and Control ...
"This publication brings together current experience and available information on the management and control of cabomba in Australia. The text has been reviewed by many of the people involved in the management of this weed."--Foreword.
Elissa Van Oosterhout, 2009
4
Biological Control of Weeds in Australia
ABSTRACT Cabomba is a submerged aquatic plant that originates from two areas in the Americas – north-eastern Argentina and the south-eastern USA. Despite its restricted native distribution, it has been invading new habitats worldwide ...
Jim Cullen, Mic Julien, Rachel McFadyen, 2012
5
Zen & the Art of Pond Building
Cabomba (Cabomba caroliniana). Also called fanwort, cabomba leaves vary with the species. Most have bright green underwater foliage of graceful fans and tiny white flowers in summer. The foliage makes a great spawning area and a safe ...
D. J. Herda, 2008
6
Biological Control of Tropical Weeds Using Arthropods
Noosa Shire Council spends in excess of US $85 000 per year (with US$180 000 initial investment) to mechanically remove cabomba from a small fraction of Lake Macdonald (26.385O S, 152.929° E) using a floating weed harvester (B.
Rangaswamy Muniappan, Gadi V. P. Reddy, Anantanarayanan Raman, 2009
7
Predicting Spread of the Invasive Macrophyte Cabomba ...
Humans play a major role in the global spread of nonindigenous species (NIS).
Michael Jacobs, 2008
8
Flowering Plants
13th Morphological studies of the Nymphaeaceae (sensu lato): Contributions to the vegetative and floral structure of Cabomba. Am. J. Bot. 71: 902–924. Moseley MF, EL Schneider, and PS Williamson. 1993. Phylogenetic interpretations from ...
Armen Takhtajan, 2009
9
Wetland Plants of Queensland: A Field Guide
Cabomba, fanwort Habit: Cabomba is a perennial, submerged aquatic plant. Distribution: Cabomba has been introduced from America and become naturalised in waterbodies in far north and south coastal Queensland, probably as a result of ...
K. M. Stephens, Ralph M. Dowling, 2002
10
Bogan Proof Fences
'Hey', the human cairn called out, 'giz me board back'. Burr kept on walking and ignored the sound of Cabomba scraping his bulk out of the gravel pit he'd created and tailing him in pursuit of the skateboard. Burr knew this was going to work.
Brendan Lee, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CABOMBA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cabomba is used in the context of the following news items.
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Eagleville Lake Fanwort Treatment Postponed
Due to the heavy rainfall over the weekend, this week's scheduled treatment of the aquatic, non-native invasive species Fanwort (Cabomba ... «Patch.com, Jun 15»
2
Dredging project halted
Ridding Canaan Lake of variable leaf milfoil and cabomba, invasive species that choke out living creatures in its path is still on Legis. «Long Island Advance, May 15»
3
China's Ecosystem Threatened by Foreign Invasive Species
In 2010, Xie found that the highly invasive Cabomba caroliniana, which was largely found in the lower parts of the Yangtze River, was moving ... «Chinatopix, Dec 14»
4
Weed growth contained on Houston Lake
Cabomba and other weeds entangled motors and made even paddling difficult. Private donations to the Houston Lake Alliance, a group formed ... «13WMAZ, Dec 14»
5
Fanwort: a silent threat to RI freshwater bodies
The threat is the aquatic plant species commonly known as fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana), which can have serious economic and ... «Warwick Beacon, Dec 14»
6
Aquatic plants as important as fish in aquariums
All told, the nursery produces 180 varieties of aquarium plants, including purple cabomba, green wendti, red melon sword and dwarf baby tears ... «Highlands Today, Nov 14»
7
Houston Lake neighbors discuss study on weeds
Houston Lake is infested with a weed called Cabomba which will take $35,000 to remedy and that's just for one year. The weed isn't a health ... «13WMAZ, Aug 14»
8
'Mac' is back
... Agency's water-quality standards, banning the applications of chemicals such as Sonar on invasive aquatic plants like cabomba and milfoil, ... «Long Island Advance, Jul 14»
9
Rivers choke on aquatic weeds
Cabomba (Cabomba caroliniana), also known as Fanwort plant, is a native of north and south America that grows in stagnant or slow-flowing ... «The Hindu, Jul 14»
10
Invasive weeds posing threat to water bodies in Central Travancore
The PPS team has found spreading presence of Cabomba, a fast-growing submerged aquatic weed species, along many stretches of the river ... «The Hindu, Jul 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cabomba [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cabomba>. Apr 2024 ».
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