pondweed
English Thesaurus
1. submerged freshwater perennials (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | liliopsid genus, monocot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | waterweed, |
| definition | : | a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family hydrocharidaceae, family hydrocharitaceae, frog's-bit family, frogbit family, hydrocharidaceae, hydrocharitaceae, |
| definition | : | simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed (noun.plant) |
2. any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | curled leaf pondweed, curly pondweed, potamogeton crispus, |
| definition | : | European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | potamogeton gramineous, variously-leaved pondweed, |
| definition | : | of Europe (except the Mediterranean area) and the northern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | loddon pondweed, potamogeton americanus, potamogeton nodosus, |
| definition | : | pondweed with floating leaves; of northern United States and Europe (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | frog's lettuce, |
| definition | : | very similar to Potamogeton; of western Africa, Asia, and Europe (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | horned pondweed, zannichellia palustris, |
| definition | : | found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family potamogetonaceae, pondweed family, potamogetonaceae, |
| definition | : | plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae (noun.plant) |
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