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Definition of Hydrophyte
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
Definition of Hydrophyte
1. n. An aquatic plant; an alga.
Definition of Hydrophyte
1. Noun. A plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hydrophyte
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Medical Definition of Hydrophyte
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrophyte
Literary usage of Hydrophyte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Studies: An Elementary Botany by John Merle Coulter (1900)
"It is a well-known fact that hydrophytes are among the most cosmopolitan of
plants, and hydrophyte societies in one part of the world look very much like ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The purely morphological aspects are treated under ANATOMY (qv). Anatomical matter
is also presented in connection with the topics hydrophyte: ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1919)
"Ranunculus sceleratus, which is a typical hydrophyte, loses only eight to ...
this evidence is that Equisetum fluviatile is unquestionably a hydrophyte. ..."
4. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"... made of at least one typical hydrophyte, halophyte, and xerophyte plant.
Some good examples arc: (1) hydrophyte : pondweed, waterlily, pipewort (Erio- ..."
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