caltrop vs aquatic plant

aquatic plant vs caltrop

caltrop and aquatic plant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caltrop	Yes	No	No	No
aquatic plant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, aquatic plant is a hypernym of caltrop; that is, aquatic plant is a word with a broader meaning than caltrop:

caltrop: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
aquatic 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

Other hypernyms of caltrop include hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant.

caltrop (noun)	aquatic plant (noun)
tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed	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
Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

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