SWAMP PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swamp plant mean? 

• SWAMP PLANT (noun)
  The noun SWAMP PLANT has 1 sense:

1. a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath

  Familiarity information: SWAMP PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWAMP PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant

Hypernyms ("swamp plant" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swamp plant"):

sabbatia (any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes)

lizard's-tail; Saururus cernuus; swamp lily; water dragon (North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers)

Sium sisarum; skirret (an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root)

greater water parsnip; Sium latifolium (large stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; Europe)

Sium suave; water parsnip (stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia)

brooklime; European brooklime; Veronica beccabunga (European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America)

American brooklime; brooklime; Veronica americana (plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers)

Chelone glabra; shell-flower; shellflower; snake-head; snakehead; turtlehead (showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple)

grass-of-Parnassus; parnassia (any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup)

arrow grass; Triglochin maritima (tufted perennial found in shallow water or marshland; sometimes poisons livestock)

Alisma plantago-aquatica; water plantain (marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves)

yellow-eyed grass (any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States)

lesser spearwort; Ranunculus flammula (semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand)

cattail (tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes)

sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

iva; marsh elder (any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America)

foetid pothos; polecat weed; skunk cabbage; Symplocarpus foetidus (deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe)

Lysichiton americanum; skunk cabbage (clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe)

Calla palustris; water arum; wild calla (plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries)

Acorus calamus; calamus; flagroot; myrtle flag; sweet calamus; sweet flag (perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots)

rush (grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems)

Caltha palustris; cowslip; kingcup; marsh marigold; May blob; meadow bright; water dragon (swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups)

greater spearwort; Ranunculus lingua (semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears)