hydrophytic plant vs water chestnut

water chestnut vs hydrophytic plant

hydrophytic plant and water chestnut both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hydrophytic plant	Yes	No	No	No
water chestnut	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, water chestnut is a hyponym of hydrophytic plant; that is, water chestnut is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hydrophytic plant:

hydrophytic 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
water chestnut: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

Other hyponyms of hydrophytic plant 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, caltrop, 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.

hydrophytic plant (noun)	water chestnut (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	edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant
	Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers
	a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

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