hydrophyte

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdɹəfaɪt/

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Noun

hydrophyte (plural hydrophytes)

1. (botany) A plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water, usually excluding seaweed.

Hyponyms

• amphiphyte
• elodeid
• haptophyte
• helophyte
• hydatophyte
• isoetid
• nymphaeid
• planktophyte
• pleustophyte
• rhizophyte
• tenagophyte
• trichophyte

Translations

plant that lives in or requires an abundance of water

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水生植物 (zh) (shuǐshēng zhíwù)

• Czech: hydrofyt (cs) m
• Danish: vandplante, hydrofyt (da)
• Dutch: hydrofyt (nl) m
• Faroese: vatnplanta f
• Finnish: vesikasvi
• French: hydrophyte (fr) m
• German: Wasserpflanze (de) f
• Hebrew: צמח מים
• Icelandic: vatnaplanta f
• Indonesian: tumbuhan air (id)
• Japanese: 水草 (ja) (mizukusa)
• Polish: hydrofit (pl) m
• Romanian: hidrofită (ro) f
• Russian: гидрофи́т (ru) m (gidrofít), водяно́е расте́ние n (vodjanóje rasténije)
• Swedish: vattenväxt (sv) c
• Tagalog: halamang danumin