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WATERWEED
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea
Classified under:
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)