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cape pondweed — noun Usage: usually capitalized C Etymology: from Cape of Good Hope : a southern African aquatic plant (Aponogeton distachyus) with long petioled floating leaves and emersed fragrant flower spikes called also water hawthorn * * * an aquatic plant … Useful english dictionary
Acorellus — Acorellus … Wikipedia Español
Aponogĕton — Thunb., einzige Gattung der Aponogetonazeen, Wasserpflanzen mit knolliger, stärkemehlreicher Grundachse, grundständigen, langgestielten Blättern mit schwimmender oder untergetauchter Spreite und langgestielten, von einer Scheide umhüllten,… … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers. Also called water hawthorn. * * * … Universalium
pondweed — /pond weed /, n. any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, most species of which grow in ponds and quiet streams. [1570 80; POND + WEED1] * * * ▪ plant any of several cosmopolitan freshwater plants sometimes grown in ponds or aquariums.… … Universalium
Aponogetonaceae — Aponogetonaceae … Wikipédia en Français
distachya — , distachyon, distachyos, distachyum, distachyus Gk dis, twice; stachys, spike as of an ear of wheat. Inflorescences with two branches or with regularly bifurcating branches … Etymological dictionary of grasses
