hydrophyten.

1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 72 The number of hydrophytes, as they are termed, is very considerable.

1857 M. J. Berkeley Introd. Cryptogamic Bot. §63. 81 I shall..consider Algals, or Hydrophytes, as forming the first grand group.

1858 A. Gray Introd. Struct. & Systematic Bot. Gloss. 536/2 Hydrophyte, a water-plant.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 415/2 Hydrophytes..Water-plants.

1894 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants I. 75 It is usual to designate all plants that grow in water as hydrophytes or water-plants.

1920 A. Arber Water Plants i. 3 The ultimate term in the acceptance of aquatic conditions is reached in certain hydrophytes with submerged flowers, in which even the pollination is aquatic.

1967 C. D. Sculthorpe Biol. Aquatic Vasc. Plants v. 147 Experimental data on the water relations of submerged hydrophytes do not lend themselves to generalisation.

1901 Daily Chron. 6 Sept. 3/3 Easy and luxurious is by comparison the life of hydrophytic societies.

1905 F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. iv. 209 The effect of these conditions is to produce a plant xerophytic as to its aerial parts, and mesophytic or even hydrophytic as to subterranean parts.

1926 Nat. Hist. Oxf. Distr. 83 It [sc.Elodea canadensis] has never seeded, and has spread vegetatively as is the case with other alien hydrophytic species.

1934 Discovery 15 11/1 Suitable protection [for mosquitoes] may be furnished by grass or other hydrophytic vegetation.

1955 G. M. Smith Cryptogamic Bot. (ed. 2) II. v. 97 As the mat [of vegetation] becomes drier..the Sphagnum eventually disappears and the hydrophytic angiosperms are replaced by those of a more mesophytic type.

1973 Nature 12 Jan. 88/2 A halophytic vegetation covered the basin during the past century with a hydrophytic woodland forming in the first quarter of the present century.

1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Hydrophytography.

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Hydrophytology.