Frogbit Family (Noun)
Meaning
Simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Frogbit family is composed of several nearly stemless aquatic plant species widely distributed across North America and Eurasia.
- Hydrocharitaceae or the frogbit family has about 14 aquatic plant species distributed globally with many having both submerged and floating leaves.
- In some countries frogbit family members like frogbit itself can cause economic loss to commercial watercress crops and aquatic animals' habitats.
- Water soldiers and Canadian waterweed belong to the frogbit family, found mostly in stagnant and slow-moving freshwater environments around the world.
- These plants have successfully been added to ornamental garden ponds in frogbit family so far but it remains invasive to natural ecosystems of native water lilies and so on.