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Definition of Canadian pondweed
1. Noun. North American waterweed; widely naturalized in Europe.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canadian Pondweed
Literary usage of Canadian pondweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters in Modern Botany by Patrick Geddes (1893)
"Take a piece of some vigorous water-plant, such as the Canadian pondweed
Elodea (Anacharis) ... That the Canadian pondweed absorbs, like other waterplants, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... like the Weeping-willow or the Canadian pondweed, of each of which, on this
view, there is only a single individual in Britain, happily discontinuous. ..."
3. Colin Clout's Calendar: The Record of a Summer. April-October. by Grant Allen (1901)
"This peculiarity is well seen in the career of the Canadian pondweed, which was
first introduced into England as a botanical specimen in 1847, ..."
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