Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hydatophyte

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hydato-phyte
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An obligate waterplant; a plant which lives partly or completely submerged in water, such as water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).

Example Sentences

"[…] hydatophytes are not attached to the ground by their roots (duckweed and Canadian pondweed), and others (the waterlily) are attached. Hydatophytes are classified according to their course of development. True hydatophytes […]"
"[…] hydatophytes) are those plants which live either completely (the so-called submersion hydatophytes), or partly i.e. with their vegetative organs, (the so-called emmersion^([sic]) hydatophytes) submerged in water. Amphibious […]"
"[…] the amount of hydatophyte biomass which leaves the Pantanal merit further study. The camalotes carry with them also a significant terrestrial macrofauna. Caimans travel downstream and reach Argentina and there are also unconfirmed[…]"
"[…] hydatophytes and hydrophytes don't differ conceptually in the ability to concentrate radionuclides."

Etymology

From hydato- + -phyte. Hydat- is the stem of Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ὕδωρ

Inflected Forms

hydatophytes (plural)

Questions

What does hydatophyte mean?: An obligate waterplant; a plant which lives partly or completely submerged in water, such as water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).
Where does hydatophyte come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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