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Definition of Hydrophytes
1. hydrophyte [n] - See also: hydrophyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrophytes
Literary usage of Hydrophytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Various classes of hydrophytes are taken up under separate heads, where the main
features of ... The leaves of hydrophytes are frequently finely divided, ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Perhaps no plants have such a wide distribution as certain of the hydrophytes.
This is particularly true of ocean plants, where it can easily be accounted ..."
3. A Text-book of Botany for Secondary Schools by John Merle Coulter (1910)
"CHAPTER XXII hydrophytes 192. Adaptations.—When a plant lives entirely or partially
submerged in water, its structure differs in many ways from that of an ..."
4. Classification of Wetlands & Deepwater Habitats of the U. S. by Lewis M. Cowardin (1979)
"The term wetland includes a variety of areas that fall into one of five
categories: (1) areas with hydrophytes and hydric soils, ..."
5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The leaves, and often the stems, even of land hydrophytes, are soft and watery.
... It is customary to restrict the term hydrophytes to plants growing in ..."
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