Definition of Potamogetonaceae

1. Noun. Plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Potamogetonaceae

Post-It
Post-Zionism
Post-Zionist
Post-impressionist
Postal Rate Commission
Postimpressionist
Postmaster General
Postum
Potamogale velox
Potamogalidae
Potamogeton
Potamogeton americanus
Potamogeton crispus
Potamogeton gramineous
Potamogeton nodosus
Potamogetonaceae (current term)
Potamophis
Potamophis striatula
Potawatomi
Potawatomis
Potemkin village
Potemkin villages
Potentilla
Potentilla anserina
Potenza
Poterium
Poterium sanguisorba
Potiphar
Potomac
Potomac River

Literary usage of Potamogetonaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"Family Potamogetonaceae. A submerged water plant with creeping rootstock; upper leaves floating, elliptical, somewhat pointed at each end, 5 cm. long, ..."

2. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"This is one of the most remarkable of the monocotyledonous lines in its extent, reaching from the greatest floral simplicity in Potamogetonaceae to highly ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"... of the Potamogetonaceae, a salt water plant of Australia. The same author (ibid. 121-124. pis. 4, 5) under the title "Additions to the flora of South ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1907)
"... Potamogetonaceae and Aponogetonaceae are according to the views of the writer undoubtedly primitive. The remarkable male flower of Naias in having a ..."

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