pondweed vs aquatic plant

aquatic plant vs pondweed

pondweed and aquatic plant both are nouns.

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

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

pondweed: any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae
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 pondweed include hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant.

pondweed (noun)	aquatic plant (noun)
any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae	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
submerged freshwater perennials

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