Stratioteæ (stratiotee)

pl. [NL. (Link, 1829), usually also long-petioled floating leaves, by peduncled spathes, and by one-celled ovaries spuriously six-celled by intrusion of the lobed placentæ. It includes five genera, of which Stratiotes is the type. (See also Hydro char is.) The others are mostly tropical plants of fresh water, with ovate-oblong or broadly cordate floating leaves and ribbed or winged spathes. Stratiotes (str at-i-ō'tēz), n. [NL. (in def. 1 (Linnæus, 1737) so called from the sword-like leaves), Stratiotes dier,' 2. In entom., a genus of South American carabid beetles. Putzeys, 1846.