pistia vs water cabbage

pistia and water cabbage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pistia	Yes	No	No	No
water cabbage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pistia and water cabbage are synonyms defined as:

pistia and water cabbage: pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes

Other synonyms of pistia include Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, water lettuce.

pistia (noun)	water cabbage (noun)
pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes	pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes