Crossword clues for pondweed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pondweed \Pond"weed`\, n. (Bot.) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers.
Choke pondweed, an American water weed ( Anarcharis Canadensis, syn. Elodea Canadensis.) See Anacharis.
Horned pondweed, the Zannichellia palustris, a slender, branching aquatic plant, having pointed nutlets.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several plants of the genus that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions: 2 # (cx most commonly English) (taxlink Potamogeton genus noshow=1), a diverse and worldwide genus 3 # ''Elodea'', found in North America 4 # ''Aponogeton'', in Africa, Asia and Australasia 5 # (taxlink Groenlandia densa species noshow=1 nomul=1), principally of Spain 6 ''(taxlink Charales order noshow=1)'', an order of green algae
WordNet
n. any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae
submerged freshwater perennials [syn: Elodea, genus Elodea, ditchmoss]
Wikipedia
Pondweed refers to many species and genera of aquatic plants and green algae:
- Potamogeton, a diverse and worldwide genus
- Elodea, found in North America
- Aponogeton, in Africa, Asia and Australasia
- Groenlandia, a genus of aquatic plants
- Stuckenia, a genus of aquatic plants
- Charales, an order of green algae
Usage examples of "pondweed".
It is so like our planet that a terrestrial botanist might find his every species there, even to the meanest pondweed or the remotest Alpine blossom.
The sultan was propped up on silk cushions, a frail, stick-like figure with yellow flesh hanging like pondweed from his bones.
Waist-deep she waded among flat discs of pondweed, her hair streaming like wet leaves over the waxy contours of her body.
Possibly because of the rampaging dailiness of the magic of that country, its natives could rarely be persuaded to spend any serious time or thought on questions of how the world began or what it was for, or why people were people instead of stick insects or pondweed, or any of the other standard varieties of religious inquiry.
Slaves were stringing garlands around the cornices of the little gazebos and shrines, pulling the ubiquitous, spiky leaves of dandelions from the miniature lawns, plucking pondweed from among the miles of waterlilies and setting up tables for buffets or platforms for musicians.
They loved the summer leaves of deciduous trees, and the succulent pondweeds and water plants of marshes and lakes, and with broad hooves and long legs, they could negotiate marshy, boggy bottomlands.
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