Definition of aquatic plant Aquatic plant
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| aquatic 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 hyacinth | ||
| water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant | ||
| tracheophyte, vascular plant green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms | ||
| hornwort liverworts with slender hornlike capsules | ||
| 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 | ||
| water chestnut plant, caltrop, water chestnut tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | ||
| 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 (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains | ||
| 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 | ||
| tape grass, vallisneria spiralis, eelgrass, 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 | ||
| grass wrack, zostera marina, eelgrass, sea wrack 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
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aquatic plant
Plant adapted for a partially or completely submerged life.
