NOUN | plant | family Potamogetonaceae, Potamogetonaceae, pondweed family | plants that grow in ponds and slow streams |
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Meaning | plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae. | |
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Synonyms | Potamogetonaceae, pondweed family | |
Member of | Naiadales, order Naiadales, Alismales, order Alismales | An order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants |
Members | Groenlandia, genus Groenlandia | A monocotyledonous genus of the family Potamogetonaceae |
Potamogeton, genus Potamogeton | A large genus of aquatic herbs found in quiet waters in temperate regions | |
Zostera, genus Zostera | (or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants | |
pondweed | Any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae | |
Broader | monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
Spanish | potamogetonáceas | |
Catalan | Potamogetonaceae |
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