water plant

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 planthydrophytehydrophytic plant

   Broadervascular plant

   Narrowerhornwortwater lilywater crowfootcryptocorynegolden clubarrow arumpistiaduckweedawlwortfeatherfoil

   Partspad

Questions about water plant

What does water plant mean?

water 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 water plant?

Close synonyms include aquatic 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 water plant a common word?

water 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.