pondweed
Noun
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Any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae (synset 112636471)
is a type of: aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinthsubtypes:
- curled leaf pondweed, curly pondweed, potamogeton crispus - European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California
- potamogeton gramineous, variously-leaved pondweed - of Europe (except the Mediterranean area) and the northern United States
- loddon pondweed, potamogeton americanus, potamogeton nodosus - pondweed with floating leaves; of northern United States and Europe
- frog's lettuce - very similar to Potamogeton; of western Africa, Asia, and Europe
- horned pondweed, zannichellia palustris - found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria
belongs to: family potamogetonaceae, pondweed family, potamogetonaceae - plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae -
Submerged freshwater perennials (synset 112635078)
is a type of: liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedmember holonym: waterweed - a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodeabelongs to: family hydrocharidaceae, family hydrocharitaceae, frog's-bit family, frogbit family, hydrocharidaceae, hydrocharitaceae - simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed
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