Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed, ditchmoss
(noun) submerged freshwater perennials
pondweed
(noun) any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pondweed (countable and uncountable, plural pondweeds)
Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions
• — greenfingers.com article
(most commonly) Potamogeton, a diverse and worldwide genus
Elodea, found in North America
Aponogeton, in Africa, Asia and Australasia
opposite-leaved pondweed, Groenlandia densa, only plant of its genus, found chiefly in the Mediterranean region.
Charales, an order of green algae
• deep down
Source: Wiktionary
Pond"weed`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers. Choke pondweed, an American water weed (Anarcharis, or Elodea, Canadensis.) See Anacharis.
– Horned pondweed, the Zannichellia palustris, a slender, branching aquatic plant, having pointed nutlets.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
