water plant

a plant that grows in water.

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“Compliment” and “complement” had a shared meaning a long time ago, but today they are no longer interchangeable.

First recorded in 1760–70

We could not induce the Bedouin to gather a water-plant we coveted in one of them for this reason.
Southern Arabia|Theodore Bent
This marsh is surrounded with very lofty oaks, and abounds with pondweed, the water-plant named by botanists potamogeton.
Insect Architecture|James Rennie
I, for one, am never weary of the time-honoured demonstration of a water-plant giving off oxygen as it assimilates.
Rustic Sounds|Francis Darwin
A kind of water-plant grows in these lakes very fast and mats together, making marshy beds.
Little Folks of North America|Mary Hazelton Wade

In the absence of sponges, however, this fish attaches its eggs to the floating roots of the water-plant Pistia stratiotes.
Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa|Nelson Annandale