AQUATIC PLANT

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• AQUATIC PLANT (noun)
  The noun AQUATIC PLANT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: AQUATIC PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

• AQUATIC PLANT (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant

Hypernyms ("aquatic plant" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "aquatic plant"):

pad (the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aquatic plant"):

hornwort (any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams)

Eichhornia crassipes; Eichhornia spesiosa; water hyacinth; water orchid (a tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers; troublesome in clogging waterways especially in southern United States)

Heteranthera dubia; mud plantain; water star grass (grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms)

naiad; water nymph (submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water)

frog's-bit; frogbit; Hydrocharis morsus-ranae (European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers)

hydrilla; Hydrilla verticillata (submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida's waterways)

American frogbit; Limnodium spongia (American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches)

waterweed (a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea)

eelgrass; tape grass; Vallisneria spiralis; wild celery (submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia)

pondweed (any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae)

eelgrass; grass wrack; sea wrack; Zostera marina (submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts)

water starwort (any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves; America, Europe and Asia)

golden saxifrage; golden spleen (any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium)

Veronica anagallis-aquatica; Veronica michauxii; water speedwell (plant of wet places in Eurasia and America)

pickerel weed; pickerelweed; Pontederia cordata; wampee (American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds)

Eriocaulon aquaticum; pipewort (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)

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

Ranunculus aquatilis; water buttercup; water crowfoot (plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America)

cryptocoryne; water trumpet (any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia)

golden club; Orontium aquaticum (aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and a spadix resembling a club covered with tiny yellow flowers)

arrow arum (an aquatic plant of the genus Peltandra; North America)

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

duckweed (any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds)

awlwort; Subularia aquatica (small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal)

feather-foil; featherfoil (a plant of the genus Hottonia)

water pimpernel (a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus)

water milfoil (an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers)

caltrop; water chestnut; water chestnut plant (a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits)

bog myrtle; bogbean; buckbean; marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; water shamrock (perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface)

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)