Wasserpflanze

Definitions of Wasserpflanze
  1. noun
    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
    synonyms: Moorpflanze, Sumpfpflanze
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    Seerosengewächs
    an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae
    Wasserlinsengewächs
    any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds
    Tausendblatt
    an aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers
    Wassernuss, Wassernuß
    a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
    Bitterklee, Fieberklee
    perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface
    Froschbissgewächs, Froschbißgewächs
    European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers
    Laichkraut
    any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae
    Wasserstern
    any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves; America, Europe and Asia
    Weiße Seerose
    a water lily with white flowers
    Gelbe Teichrose, Mummel
    a water lily with yellow flowers
    Sumpfdotterblume
    swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups
    Binsengewächs
    grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
    Wasserlinse
    of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia
    Wasserfeder
    featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers
    Riedgrasgewächs, Sauergras, Segge
    grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
    Rohrkolbengewächs
    tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes
    Haarlaichkraut
    European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California
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    Gefäßpflanze
    green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
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