water plant

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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 hyacinthaquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic planthornwort - any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streamswater lily - an aquatic plant of the family NymphaeaceaeRanunculus aquatilis, water buttercup, water crowfoot - plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North Americacryptocoryne, water trumpet - any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asiagolden club, Orontium aquaticum - aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and a spadix resembling a club covered with tiny yellow flowersarrow arum - an aquatic plant of the genus Peltandra; North Americapistia, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, water cabbage, water lettuce - pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakesduckweed - any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow pondsawlwort, Subularia aquatica - small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumborealfeatherfoil, feather-foil - a plant of the genus Hottoniawater pimpernel - a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samoluswater milfoil - an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowerswater chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruitsbog 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 surfaceEriocaulon 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 flowerspickerel weed, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata, wampee - American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and pondsEichhornia 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 StatesHeteranthera dubia, mud plantain, water star grass - grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossomsnaiad, water nymph - submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish waterfrogbit, frog's-bit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae - European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowershydrilla, Hydrilla verticillata - submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida's waterwaysAmerican frogbit, Limnodium spongia - American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditcheswaterweed - a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodeatape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery, eelgrass - submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australiapondweed - any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceaeeelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina - submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coastswater starwort - any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves; America, Europe and Asiagolden saxifrage, golden spleen - any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus ChrysospleniumVeronica anagallis-aquatica, Veronica michauxii, water speedwell - plant of wet places in Eurasia and Americatracheophyte, vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiospermsbog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heathpad - the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)