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Noun: water plant
  1. 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
    "Water lilies are beautiful water plants often seen in ponds";
    - aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant

Derived forms: water plants

Type of: tracheophyte, vascular plant

Encyclopedia: Water plant