English > pondweed: 2 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae. |
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| Member of | Potamogetonaceae, family Potamogetonaceae, pondweed family | plants that grow in ponds and slow streams |
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| Narrower | curled leaf pondweed, curly pondweed, Potamogeton crispus | European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California |
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| frog's lettuce | Very similar to Potamogeton |
| horned pondweed, Zannichellia palustris | Found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water |
| loddon pondweed, Potamogeton nodosus, Potamogeton americanus | pondweed with floating leaves |
| variously-leaved pondweed, Potamogeton gramineous | Of Europe (except the Mediterranean area) and the northern United States |
| Broader | aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant | A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth |
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