NOUN
- 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
How To Use aquatic plant In A Sentence
- The mallards, golden-eyes and trumpeters were still there, working the shallows of the river for aquatic plants.
- While some consider giant salvinia to be an attractive aquatic plant, this free-floating fern is also an obnoxious invader that's sometimes referred to as ‘the world's worst water weed.’
- We had sediments, river mud, pebbles rounded by water action, even the remains of aquatic plants on the site.
- As for asexual reproduction, the authors discuss why vegetative reproduction works so well for so many aquatic plants: rhizomatous growth (clonal growth), as well as reproduction through fragmentation and the production of corms, stolons, tubers, turions and gemmiparous plantlets.
- These fish are particularly fond of vegetable foods, and will usually eat tender aquatic plants.
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeolaThe bufflehead is a small diving duck that forages underwater, eating primarily aquatic plants and fish eggs. Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers
- The aquatic plants typically grow on rocks in cascades, waterfalls and rapids where there are great seasonal fluctuations in river water levels.
- Mallards are omnivorous, eating seeds, stems, and roots from a variety of aquatic plants, especially sedges, grasses, pondweeds, and smartweeds.
- Rice-Paddy Herb Rice-paddy herb is an aquatic plant in the snapdragon family, Limnophila chinensis ssp. aromatica, a native of Asia and the Pacific islands, whose small leaves are used in Southeast Asian fish dishes, soups, and curries, especially in Vietnam. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- Definitive hosts eating uncooked aquatic plants and vegetation with encysted metacercariae are infected, starting the cycle over again. Chapter 2
