water plant

Historical Examples

• 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

• But Shelley's picture of the luxuriant rush and water-plant vegetation would have been magnificent.

  Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone

  Angus B. Reach

• 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