water plant

noun

a plant that grows in water.

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DISCOVER THE INFLUENCE OF PORTUGUESE ON ENGLISH VIA THIS QUIZ!

We’ve gathered some interesting words donated to English from Portuguese … as well as some that just don’t translate at all. Do you know what they mean?

Question 1 of 11

Which of the following animal names traces its immediate origin to Portuguese?

owl

crow

piranha

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Origin of water plant

First recorded in 1760–70

Words nearby water plant

water pill, water pimpernel, water pipe, water pipit, water pistol, water plant, water plantain, water platter, water plug, water pocket, water pollution

Example sentences from the Web for water plant

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

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