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WATERWEED

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Meaning:

A weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("waterweed" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waterweed"):

Canadian pondweed; Elodea canadensis (North American waterweed; widely naturalized in Europe)

dense-leaved elodea; Egeria densa; Elodea densa (aquatic plant with deep green foliage useful to oxygenate an aquarium; sometimes placed in genus Egeria)

Holonyms ("waterweed" is a member of...):

ditchmoss; Elodea; genus Elodea; pondweed (submerged freshwater perennials)

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