noun
Meaning 1
A plant that grows in water; a hydrophyte
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water plant
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noun
Meaning 2
All or part of a system for collecting, processing, and distributing water, especially suitable for drinking.
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noun
Meaning 3
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
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Synonyms: aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant
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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
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