marsh plant
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1. a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant, |
| definition | : | 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) |
| hyponym | : | lesser spearwort, ranunculus flammula, |
| definition | : | semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | greater spearwort, ranunculus lingua, |
| definition | : | semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | caltha palustris, cowslip, kingcup, marsh marigold, may blob, meadow bright, water dragon, |
| definition | : | swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | rush, |
| definition | : | grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | acorus calamus, calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag, |
| definition | : | perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | calla palustris, water arum, wild calla, |
| definition | : | plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lysichiton americanum, skunk cabbage, |
| definition | : | clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | foetid pothos, polecat weed, skunk cabbage, symplocarpus foetidus, |
| definition | : | deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | iva, marsh elder, |
| definition | : | any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sedge, |
| definition | : | grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cattail, |
| definition | : | tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sabbatia, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | yellow-eyed grass, |
| definition | : | any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | alisma plantago-aquatica, water plantain, |
| definition | : | marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | arrow grass, triglochin maritima, |
| definition | : | tufted perennial found in shallow water or marshland; sometimes poisons livestock (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | grass-of-parnassus, parnassia, |
| definition | : | any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead, |
| definition | : | showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | american brooklime, brooklime, veronica americana, |
| definition | : | plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | brooklime, european brooklime, veronica beccabunga, |
| definition | : | European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sium suave, water parsnip, |
| definition | : | stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | greater water parsnip, sium latifolium, |
| definition | : | large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; Europe (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sium sisarum, skirret, |
| definition | : | an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lizard's-tail, saururus cernuus, swamp lily, water dragon, |
| definition | : | North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers (noun.plant) |
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