AQUATIC PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aquatic plant mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AQUATIC PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

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"):

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

waterweed (a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea)

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

 Context examples 

The resulting boom of aquatic plant growth can cause oxygen levels in the water to plunge, leading to fish die-offs and other harmful effects.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)