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Definition of Hydrophytic 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
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Derivative terms: Hydrophytic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrophytic Plant
Literary usage of Hydrophytic plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The hydrophytic plant societies are essentially all edaphic, that is, ...
The hydrophytic plant societies may be roughly subdivided into those associated ..."
2. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"The hydrophytic plant societies are essentially all edaphic, that is, ...
The hydrophytic plant societies may be roughly subdivided into those associated ..."
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