PONDWEED FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pondweed family mean? 

• PONDWEED FAMILY (noun)
  The noun PONDWEED FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae

  Familiarity information: PONDWEED FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PONDWEED FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Potamogetonaceae; pondweed family; Potamogetonaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "pondweed family"):

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

genus Potamogeton; Potamogeton (a large genus of aquatic herbs found in quiet waters in temperate regions; leaves usually float on the water)

genus Groenlandia; Groenlandia (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Potamogetonaceae)

genus Zostera; Zostera ((or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants)

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

Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)