hydrophytic plant
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| Noun | 1. |  hydrophytic plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinthhornwort - any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams 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 featherfoil, feather-foil - 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 water chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop - 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 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 pickerel weed, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata, wampee - American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds 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 frogbit, frog's-bit, 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 tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery, eelgrass - 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 tracheophyte, vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms 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 pad - the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily) |
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