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hydrophyte

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈhaɪdɹəfaɪt/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water, usually excluding seaweed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aquatic plant, water plant

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophytic plant

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vascular plant, tracheophyte

Narrower terms: hornwort, water lily, water crowfoot, water buttercup, Ranunculus aquatilis, cryptocoryne, water trumpet, golden club, Orontium aquaticum, arrow arum, pistia, water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, duckweed, awlwort, Subularia aquatica, featherfoil, feather-foil, water pimpernel, water milfoil, water chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop, water shamrock, buckbean, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, pipewort, Eriocaulon aquaticum, pickerelweed, pickerel weed, wampee, Pontederia cordata, water hyacinth, water orchid, Eichhornia crassipes, Eichhornia spesiosa, water star grass, mud plantain, Heteranthera dubia, naiad, water nymph, frogbit, frog's-bit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, hydrilla, Hydrilla verticillata, American frogbit, Limnodium spongia, waterweed, tape grass, eelgrass, wild celery, Vallisneria spiralis, pondweed, grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina, water starwort, golden saxifrage, golden spleen, water speedwell, Veronica michauxii, Veronica anagallis-aquatica, marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant

History

Etymology

From hydro- (“water”) + -phyte (“plant”).

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 水生植物 (shuǐshēng zhíwù) — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Czech: hydrofyt — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Danish: vandplante — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Danish: hydrofyt — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Dutch: hydrofyt — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Faroese: vatnplanta — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Finnish: vesikasvi — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • French: hydrophyte — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • German: Wasserpflanze — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Hebrew: צמח מים — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Icelandic: vatnaplanta — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Indonesian: tumbuhan air — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Japanese: 水草 (mizukusa) — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Polish: hydrofit — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Romanian: hidrofită — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Russian: гидрофи́т (gidrofít) — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Russian: водяно́е расте́ние (vodjanóje rasténije) — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Slovak: hydrofyt — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Swedish: vattenväxt — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Tagalog: halamang danumin — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Thai: พืชน้ํา — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water
  • Thai: ไม้น้ํา — plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water