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hydatophyte

hydatophyte noun: an obligate waterplant; a plant which lives partly or completely submerged in water, such as water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).

Noun

hydatophyte (plural hydatophytes)

  1. An obligate waterplant; a plant which lives partly or completely submerged in water, such as water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).
    • […] hydatophytes are not attached to the ground by their roots (duckweed and Canadian pondweed), and others (the waterlily) are attached. Hydatophytes are classified according to their course of development. True hydatophytes […]1973, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov, Great Soviet Encyclopedia, volume 6, page 637
    • […] hydatophytes) are those plants which live either completely (the so-called submersion hydatophytes), or partly i.e. with their vegetative organs, (the so-called emmersion^([sic]) hydatophytes) submerged in water. Amphibious […]1992, J. Sebanek, Plant Physiology, volume 21, page 43

Examples of hydatophyte in a sentence

  • […] the amount of hydatophyte biomass which leaves the Pantanal merit further study.2012 December 6, F.D. Por, The Pantanal of Mato Grosso (Brazil): World’s Largest Wetlands, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page...
  • […] hydatophytes and hydrophytes don't differ conceptually in the ability to concentrate radionuclides.2016, Dharmendra K. Gupta, Clemens Walther, Impact of Cesium on Plants and the Environment, page 193:

Forms of hydatophyte

pluralhydatophytes

Origin of hydatophyte

From hydato- + -phyte. Hydat- is the stem of Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).

Questions about hydatophyte

What does hydatophyte mean?
Hydatophyte means an obligate waterplant; a plant which lives partly or completely submerged in water, such as water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).
How do you use hydatophyte in a sentence?
[…] the amount of hydatophyte biomass which leaves the Pantanal merit further study.
What part of speech is hydatophyte?
Hydatophyte is a noun.
What is the plural of hydatophyte?
The plural of hydatophyte is hydatophytes.

Words near hydatophyte in the dictionary

  1. hydatiform
  2. hydatinid
  3. hydatinids
  4. hydatism
  5. hydatoid
  6. hydatophyte
  7. hydatophytes
  8. hydatoscopy
  9. hydaturia
  10. hydden
  11. hyde

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