Swamp Plant (Noun)
Meaning
A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The cattail is a common swamp plant found in wetlands throughout North America.
- Sphagnum moss is a type of swamp plant that is often used in horticulture.
- The wetlands were home to a variety of swamp plants, including sedges and grasses.
- The boardwalk wound its way through the swamp, lined with dense growths of swamp plant.
- In the early spring, the swamp plants along the riverbank began to burst forth with new growth.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Alisma Plantago-aquatica
- Iva
- Kingcup
- May Blob
- Yellow-eyed Grass
- Grass-of-Parnassus
- Shellflower
- Swamp Lily
- Symplocarpus Foetidus
- Ranunculus Lingua
- Sabbatia
- Greater Water Parsnip
- Sium Suave
- Snakehead
- Saururus Cernuus
- Flagroot
- Snake-head
- European Brooklime
- Cattail
- Greater Spearwort
- Lizard's-tail
- Polecat Weed
- Sweet Flag
- Water Dragon
- Brooklime
- Sium Latifolium
- Ranunculus Flammula
- American Brooklime
- Rush
- Skunk Cabbage
- Shell-flower
- Marsh Marigold
- Sium Sisarum
- Wild Calla
- Sedge
- Water Parsnip
- Myrtle Flag
- Cowslip
- Chelone Glabra
- Arrow Grass
- Skirret
- Caltha Palustris
- Lesser Spearwort
- Acorus Calamus
- Parnassia
- Water Plantain
- Lysichiton Americanum
- Triglochin Maritima
- Calamus
- Water Arum
- Marsh Elder