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water chestnut vs aquatic plant

aquatic plant vs water chestnut

water chestnut and aquatic plant both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
water chestnut Yes No No No
aquatic plant Yes No No No
As nouns, aquatic plant is a hypernym of water chestnut; that is, aquatic plant is a word with a broader meaning than water chestnut:
  • water chestnut: 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 water chestnut include hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant.
water chestnut (noun) aquatic plant (noun)
edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh 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
Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers
a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
Difference between water chestnut and aquatic plant

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