hydrophyte

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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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

From hydro- (“water”) + -phyte (“plant”).

But for some minutes I involuntarily confounded the genera, taking zoophytes for hydrophytes, animals for plants; and who would not have been mistaken? — Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne

aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophytic plant

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