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Aquatic plant   /əkwˈɑtɪk plænt/   Listen
Aquatic plant

noun
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.  Synonyms: hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant.






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"Aquatic plant" Quotes from Famous Books



... attempts which have at last shown me the right road, I place at their disposal two kinds of materials, possessing opposite qualities; the supple and the firm, the soft and the hard. On the one hand, we have a live aquatic plant, such as watercress, for instance, or ombrelle d'eau, having at its base a tufty bunch of fine white roots about as thick as a horsehair. In these soft tresses, the caddis worm, which observes a vegetarian diet, ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

... This aquatic plant invariably grows in either dead water or in the most sluggish stream, and none existed in the part of the river at N. lat. ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker



Words linked to "Aquatic plant" :   tracheophyte, water lily, water cabbage, Hydrilla verticillata, water chestnut, marsh plant, mud plantain, grass wrack, water buttercup, water speedwell, water pimpernel, waterweed, Pistia stratoites, pad, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, Eichhornia spesiosa, golden saxifrage, water lettuce, tape grass, Veronica anagallis-aquatica, feather-foil, bog plant, featherfoil, bog myrtle, Eriocaulon aquaticum, water plant, wampee, caltrop, naiad, Pistia stratiotes, swamp plant, water shamrock, cryptocoryne, Zostera marina, water orchid, American frogbit, golden club, Heteranthera dubia, Orontium aquaticum, hornwort, pistia, pipewort, Veronica michauxii, awlwort, Ranunculus aquatilis, pickerel weed, water crowfoot, water star grass, vascular plant, water trumpet, pondweed, water nymph, water starwort, sea wrack, buckbean, eelgrass, water chestnut plant, frog's-bit, hydrilla, duckweed, Vallisneria spiralis, Pontederia cordata, Menyanthes trifoliata, arrow arum, Subularia aquatica, water milfoil, pickerelweed, frogbit, golden spleen, marsh trefoil, wild celery, bogbean, Limnodium spongia, Eichhornia crassipes, water hyacinth



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