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Definition of Swamp plant
1. Noun. A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath.
Specialized synonyms: Lesser Spearwort, Ranunculus Flammula, Greater Spearwort, Ranunculus Lingua, Caltha Palustris, Cowslip, Kingcup, Marsh Marigold, May Blob, Meadow Bright, Water Dragon, Rush, Acorus Calamus, Calamus, Flagroot, Myrtle Flag, Sweet Calamus, Sweet Flag, Calla Palustris, Water Arum, Wild Calla, Lysichiton Americanum, Skunk Cabbage, Foetid Pothos, Polecat Weed, Skunk Cabbage, Symplocarpus Foetidus, Iva, Marsh Elder, Sedge, Cattail, Sabbatia, Yellow-eyed Grass, Alisma Plantago-aquatica, Water Plantain, Arrow Grass, Triglochin Maritima, Grass-of-parnassus, Parnassia, Chelone Glabra, Shell-flower, Shellflower, Snake-head, Snakehead, Turtlehead, American Brooklime, Brooklime, Veronica Americana, Brooklime, European Brooklime, Veronica Beccabunga, Sium Suave, Water Parsnip, Greater Water Parsnip, Sium Latifolium, Sium Sisarum, Skirret, Lizard's-tail, Saururus Cernuus, Swamp Lily, Water Dragon
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swamp Plant
Literary usage of Swamp plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Four Epochs of Life by Elizabeth Hamilton Muncie (1910)
"asked the swamp plant. "'The wind picked me up from the hillside and tossed ...
I should,' said the swamp plant sadly, ' were I as beautiful as the members ..."
2. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"swamp plant, the peduncles with a number of yellow flowers. TUFTED LOOSESTRIFE,
LYSIMACHIA ... Corolla salver-form; slender, decumbent swamp plant. ..."
3. A Spring Flora for High Schools by Henry Chandler Cowles, John Gaylord Coulter (1915)
"swamp plant, the peduncles with a number of yellow flowers. TUFTED LOOSESTRIFE,
LYSIMACHIA ... 0, Corolla salver-form; slender, decumbent swamp plant. ..."
4. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"In one kind, the tufted loosestrife, a swamp plant abundant throughout the state,
the yellow flowers are grouped in dense racemes which stand in the axils ..."
5. Four Epochs of Life by Elizabeth Hamilton Muncie (1910)
"asked the swamp plant. "'The wind picked me up from the hillside and tossed ...
I should,' said the swamp plant sadly, ' were I as beautiful as the members ..."
6. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"swamp plant, the peduncles with a number of yellow flowers. TUFTED LOOSESTRIFE,
LYSIMACHIA ... Corolla salver-form; slender, decumbent swamp plant. ..."
7. A Spring Flora for High Schools by Henry Chandler Cowles, John Gaylord Coulter (1915)
"swamp plant, the peduncles with a number of yellow flowers. TUFTED LOOSESTRIFE,
LYSIMACHIA ... 0, Corolla salver-form; slender, decumbent swamp plant. ..."
8. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"In one kind, the tufted loosestrife, a swamp plant abundant throughout the state,
the yellow flowers are ..."
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