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POTAMOGETON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Potamogeton mean?
• POTAMOGETON (noun)
The noun POTAMOGETON has 1 sense:
1. a large genus of aquatic herbs found in quiet waters in temperate regions; leaves usually float on the water
Familiarity information: POTAMOGETON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large genus of aquatic herbs found in quiet waters in temperate regions; leaves usually float on the water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Potamogeton; Potamogeton
Hypernyms ("Potamogeton" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Potamogeton"):
curled leaf pondweed; curly pondweed; Potamogeton crispus (European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California)
Potamogeton gramineous; variously-leaved pondweed (of Europe (except the Mediterranean area) and the northern United States)
loddon pondweed; Potamogeton americanus; Potamogeton nodosus (pondweed with floating leaves; of northern United States and Europe)
Holonyms ("Potamogeton" is a member of...):
family Potamogetonaceae; pondweed family; Potamogetonaceae (plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae)
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