POTAMOGETON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Potamogeton mean? 

• POTAMOGETON (noun)
  The noun POTAMOGETON has 1 sense:

1. a large genus of aquatic herbs found in quiet waters in temperate regions; leaves usually float on the water

  Familiarity information: POTAMOGETON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTAMOGETON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large genus of aquatic herbs found in quiet waters in temperate regions; leaves usually float on the water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Potamogeton; Potamogeton

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Potamogeton"):

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)

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

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