Definition of "water-plant" [water-plant]

• A plant which grows in water; an aquatic plant. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the origin of every alphabet (not syllabarium) known to man, one form was a flag or leaf of water-plant standing upright."
• "Lake Nyanja, because of the great abundance of a water-plant which requires no soil, and which they name “alfacinya”"
• "Kolobeng to Angola; and the floats themselves are pieces of a water-plant containing valves at each joint, which retain the air in cells about an inch long."