water plant vs water nymph

water nymph vs water plant

water plant and water nymph both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
water plant	Yes	No	No	No
water nymph	Yes	No	No	No

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

water 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 nymph: submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water

Other hyponyms of water 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, 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, 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.

water plant (noun)	water nymph (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	(Greek mythology) any nymph of the water
	a fairy that inhabits water
	submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water
	a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions

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