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pondweed

/pond-weed/US // ˈpɒndˌwid //UK // (ˈpɒndˌwiːd) //

水草,塘草,塘鹅草,塘鲺

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, most species of which grow in ponds and quiet streams.

Examples

  • Rabbits did not belong in Australia, nor pondweed in England, but there they are, and dominating the situation.

  • Here and there from the Pondweed and other stems hang festoons or wreaths or threads of beautiful green Alg.

  • "Nobody," said she, swallowing some more pondweed of one kind and then beginning on another.

  • He did not know that Frogs often wished themselves Tadpoles again, and he sulked around in the pondweed all day.

  • This marsh is surrounded with very lofty oaks, and abounds with pondweed, the water-plant named by botanists potamogeton.