pondweed
any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, most species of which grow in ponds and quiet streams.
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How to use pondweed in a sentence
Rabbits did not belong in Australia, nor pondweed in England, but there they are, and dominating the situation.
Mobilizing Woman-Power | Harriot Stanton BlatchHere and there from the pondweed and other stems hang festoons or wreaths or threads of beautiful green Alg.
The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott Elliot"Nobody," said she, swallowing some more pondweed of one kind and then beginning on another.
Among the Pond People | Clara Dillingham PiersonHe did not know that Frogs often wished themselves Tadpoles again, and he sulked around in the pondweed all day.
Among the Pond People | Clara Dillingham PiersonThis marsh is surrounded with very lofty oaks, and abounds with pondweed, the water-plant named by botanists potamogeton.
Insect Architecture | James Rennie
British Dictionary definitions for pondweed
/ (ˈpɒndˌwiːd) /
any of various water plants of the genus Potamogeton, which grow in ponds and slow streams: family Potamogetonaceae
Also called: waterweed British any of various unrelated water plants, such as Canadian pondweed, mare's-tail, and water milfoil, that have thin or much divided leaves
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