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noun
Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
Potamogeton, a diverse and worldwide genus
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: most commonly
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noun
Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
Elodea, found in North America
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
Azolla, of cosmopolitan distribution
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
Aponogeton, in Africa, Asia and Australasia
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
opposite-leaved pondweed, Groenlandia densa, only plant of its genus, found chiefly in the Mediterranean region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Charales, an order of green algae
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
submerged freshwater perennials
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, ditchmoss
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Broader terms: monocot genus, liliopsid genus
noun
any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant
Narrower terms: curled leaf pondweed, curly pondweed, Potamogeton crispus, variously-leaved pondweed, Potamogeton gramineous, loddon pondweed, Potamogeton nodosus, Potamogeton americanus, frog's lettuce, horned pondweed, Zannichellia palustris
History
From pond + weed.
Across languages
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
