PONDWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pondweed mean? 

• PONDWEED (noun)
  The noun PONDWEED has 2 senses:

1. any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae

2. submerged freshwater perennials

  Familiarity information: PONDWEED used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PONDWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pondweed" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water 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)

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

curled leaf pondweed; curly pondweed; Potamogeton crispus (European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California)

Potamogeton gramineous; variously-leaved pondweed (of Europe (except the Mediterranean area) and the northern United States)

loddon pondweed; Potamogeton americanus; Potamogeton nodosus (pondweed with floating leaves; of northern United States and Europe)

frog's lettuce (very similar to Potamogeton; of western Africa, Asia, and Europe)

horned pondweed; Zannichellia palustris (found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria)

Holonyms ("pondweed" is a member of...):

family Potamogetonaceae; pondweed family; Potamogetonaceae (plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Submerged freshwater perennials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ditchmoss; Elodea; genus Elodea; pondweed

Hypernyms ("pondweed" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "pondweed"):

waterweed (a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea)

Holonyms ("pondweed" is a member of...):

family Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frog's-bit family; frogbit family; Hydrocharidaceae; Hydrocharitaceae (simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed)

 Context examples 

Amitrole is a widely used herbicide for nonfood croplands to control annual and perennial grass type weeds, pondweeds and broad leaf.

(Amitrole, NCI Thesaurus)