hydrophyte vs caltrop

caltrop vs hydrophyte

hydrophyte and caltrop both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hydrophyte	Yes	No	No	No
caltrop	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, caltrop is a hyponym of hydrophyte; that is, caltrop is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hydrophyte:

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

Other hyponyms of hydrophyte include hornwort, water lily, Ranunculus aquatilis, water buttercup, water crowfoot, cryptocoryne, water trumpet, golden club, Orontium aquaticum, arrow arum, pistia, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, water cabbage, water lettuce, duckweed, awlwort, Subularia aquatica, feather-foil, featherfoil, water pimpernel, water milfoil, water chestnut, water chestnut plant, bog myrtle, bogbean, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock, Eriocaulon aquaticum, pipewort, pickerel weed, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata, wampee, Eichhornia crassipes, Eichhornia spesiosa, water hyacinth, water orchid, Heteranthera dubia, mud plantain, water star grass, naiad, water nymph, frog's-bit, frogbit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, hydrilla, Hydrilla verticillata, American frogbit, Limnodium spongia, waterweed, eelgrass, tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery, pondweed, eelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina, water starwort, golden saxifrage, golden spleen, Veronica anagallis-aquatica, Veronica michauxii, water speedwell, bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant.

hydrophyte (noun)	caltrop (noun)
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	tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
	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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