hydrophyte
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1. a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | tracheophyte, vascular plant, |
| definition | : | green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hornwort, |
| definition | : | any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | water lily, |
| definition | : | an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cryptocoryne, water trumpet, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | golden club, orontium aquaticum, |
| definition | : | aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and a spadix resembling a club covered with tiny yellow flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | arrow arum, |
| definition | : | an aquatic plant of the genus Peltandra; North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | duckweed, |
| definition | : | any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | awlwort, subularia aquatica, |
| definition | : | small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | water pimpernel, |
| definition | : | a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | water milfoil, |
| definition | : | an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | eriocaulon aquaticum, pipewort, |
| definition | : | aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | naiad, water nymph, |
| definition | : | submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hydrilla, hydrilla verticillata, |
| definition | : | submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida's waterways (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | american frogbit, limnodium spongia, |
| definition | : | American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | waterweed, |
| definition | : | a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | pondweed, |
| definition | : | any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | water starwort, |
| definition | : | any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves; America, Europe and Asia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant, |
| definition | : | a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | pad, |
| definition | : | the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily) (noun.plant) |
| derivation | : | hydrophytic, |
| definition | : | growing wholly or partially in water (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | hydrophytic, |
| definition | : | growing wholly or partially in water (adj.all) |
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