hydrophyte

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsaquatic plantwater planthydrophytic plant

   Broadervascular plant

   Narrowerhornwortwater lilywater crowfootcryptocorynegolden clubarrow arumpistiaduckweedawlwortfeatherfoil

   Partspad

Other forms of hydrophyte

plural

hydrophytes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hydrophyte

What does hydrophyte mean?

hydrophyte 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".

How many syllables are in hydrophyte?

hydrophyte has 3 syllables: hy-dro-phyte. The stress falls on "hy".

What is another word for hydrophyte?

Close synonyms include aquatic plant, water plant, 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 hydrophyte a common word?

hydrophyte 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.