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Definition of Marsh plant
1. Noun. A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath.
Specialized synonyms: Lesser Spearwort, Ranunculus Flammula, Greater Spearwort, Ranunculus Lingua, Caltha Palustris, Cowslip, Kingcup, Marsh Marigold, May Blob, Meadow Bright, Water Dragon, Rush, Acorus Calamus, Calamus, Flagroot, Myrtle Flag, Sweet Calamus, Sweet Flag, Calla Palustris, Water Arum, Wild Calla, Lysichiton Americanum, Skunk Cabbage, Foetid Pothos, Polecat Weed, Skunk Cabbage, Symplocarpus Foetidus, Iva, Marsh Elder, Sedge, Cattail, Sabbatia, Yellow-eyed Grass, Alisma Plantago-aquatica, Water Plantain, Arrow Grass, Triglochin Maritima, Grass-of-parnassus, Parnassia, Chelone Glabra, Shell-flower, Shellflower, Snake-head, Snakehead, Turtlehead, American Brooklime, Brooklime, Veronica Americana, Brooklime, European Brooklime, Veronica Beccabunga, Sium Suave, Water Parsnip, Greater Water Parsnip, Sium Latifolium, Sium Sisarum, Skirret, Lizard's-tail, Saururus Cernuus, Swamp Lily, Water Dragon
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsh Plant
Literary usage of Marsh plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Variation in Animals and Plants by Horace Middleton Vernon (1903)
"... crab—How to distinguish between species and varieties, as instanced by dimorphism
in certain fishes, and in a marsh plant—Polymorphism in plants— Series ..."
2. Variations in Animals and Plants by Horace Middleton Vernon (1902)
"... and in a marsh plant—Polymorphism in plants— Series of Fibonacci—Discontinuous
variation in animals as regards vertebrae, ribs, mammae, teeth, digits, ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1905)
"LAKE PLANT AND marsh plant FORMATIONS. The lake plant and marsh plant formations
are sparingly represented in the Cats- kills. One natural lake, or mountain ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1905)
"LAKE PLANT AND marsh plant FORMATIONS. The lake plant and marsh plant formations
are sparingly represented in the Cats- kills. One natural lake, or mountain ..."
5. A Practical Guide to Garden Plants by John Weathers (1901)
"An attractive North American marsh plant 2-2Í ft. high with long-stalked bluntly
... A beautiful Chinese aquatic or marsh plant with long-stalked lance- ..."
6. Garden Flowers: How to Cultivate Them. A Treatise on the Culture of Hardy by Edward Sprague Rand (1866)
"C, pratensis (meadow); marsh-plant; I foot; flowers purple, in May; Britain. ...
C. pratensis plena-alba (double white-flowered); marsh-plant; i foot; ..."
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