aquatic plant

Questions about aquatic plant

What does aquatic plant mean?

aquatic plant means "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".

What is another word for aquatic plant?

Close synonyms include water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aquatic plant a common word?

aquatic plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.