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Definition of Aquatic plant
1. Noun. A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth.
Specialized synonyms: Hornwort, Water Lily, Ranunculus Aquatilis, Water Buttercup, Water Crowfoot, Cryptocoryne, Water Trumpet, Golden Club, Orontium Aquaticum, Arrow Arum, Pistia, Pistia Stratiotes, Pistia Stratoites, Water Cabbage, Water Lettuce, Duckweed, Awlwort, Subularia Aquatica, Feather-foil, Featherfoil, Water Pimpernel, Water Milfoil, Caltrop, Water Chestnut, Water Chestnut Plant, Bog Myrtle, Bogbean, Buckbean, Marsh Trefoil, Menyanthes Trifoliata, Water Shamrock, Eriocaulon Aquaticum, Pipewort, Pickerel Weed, Pickerelweed, Pontederia Cordata, Wampee, Eichhornia Crassipes, Eichhornia Spesiosa, Water Hyacinth, Water Orchid, Heteranthera Dubia, Mud Plantain, Water Star Grass, Naiad, Water Nymph, Frog's-bit, Frogbit, Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae, Hydrilla, Hydrilla Verticillata, American Frogbit, Limnodium Spongia, Waterweed, Eelgrass, Tape Grass, Vallisneria Spiralis, Wild Celery, Pondweed, Eelgrass, Grass Wrack, Sea Wrack, Zostera Marina, Water Starwort, Golden Saxifrage, Golden Spleen, Veronica Anagallis-aquatica, Veronica Michauxii, Water Speedwell, Bog Plant, Marsh Plant, Swamp Plant
Generic synonyms: Tracheophyte, Vascular Plant
Terms within: Pad
Derivative terms: Hydrophytic
Medical Definition of Aquatic plant
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aquatic Plant
Literary usage of Aquatic plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"This represents the first step towards the transformation of a terrestrial plant
into an aquatic plant. FIG. 29. Cardamine pratensis. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"(A winter bud of another aquatic plant is figured under Elodea, p. ... An aquatic
plant with fl.- shoots twining above the water : Ivs. (often disappeared ..."
3. The Origin of Plant Structures by Self-adaptation to the Environment by George Henslow (1895)
"In the case of the aquatic plant the fibro-vascular cords were separated into
... The cortical lacunae also were smaller than in the aquatic plant, ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"aquatic plant SOCIETIES. I. General Considerations. ... A typical aquatic plant
has at best only a slight development of mechanical tissue; it is supported ..."
5. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"aquatic plant PARENCHYMA The parenchyma of aquatic plants (Plate 59) has large
intercellular spaces formed by the chains of cells. ..."
6. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"aquatic plant SOCIETIES. I. General Considerations. ... A typical aquatic plant
has at best only a slight development of mechanical tissue; it is supported ..."
7. Quality of Our Nations Waters: Nutrients and Pesticidesby Gregory J. Fuhrer by Gregory J. Fuhrer (2000)
"A strategy, spearheaded by the USEPA in collaboration with other Federal and
State agencies, is underway to evaluate excessive aquatic plant growth, ..."
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