Sentence examples for pondweed from inspiring English sources

In the Canadian waterweed, and also in pondweed (Potamogeton) and ditch grass (Ruppia), the pollen itself is dispersed on the water's surface; it is, however, still water-repellent.

It's a strangely appealing vision, even to me, with my phobia of fish, mud and pondweed.

The best known of these plants is pondweed, which is a superb oxygenator.

There are the usual grasses beside the streams and in the bogs and water lilies and pondweed on the banks of the marshes.

In the late spring, Mason pulls pondweed from the pond her father had built on their farm for her mother who likes to go fishing.

Her intimate knowledge of the park's 843 acres — whether there has been an outbreak of curly-leaf pondweed on the Harlem Meer, for instance, or a brown patch of grass at the Sheep Meadow — helps landscapers decide what steps to take to maintain their assigned zones.

Once the algae was tamed, however, curly-leaf pondweed, an invasive perennial, moved in.

One of the more opaque endurance events, a pachydermic slog through pondweed-ridden waters, followed by an exhausting sprint finish, open-water swimming nonetheless emerged as a sun-kissed adornment to the endgame of these London Olympics.

In a nutshell Wales's youngest stone castle (it dates from the mid-1400s), Raglan has everything a good honest castle should: spiral staircases, crenellated turrets, lots of slits for firing arrows at baddies, a pondweed-covered moat, even fire-breathing dragons (on the flagpole).

Many freshwater aquatic plants such as sedges (Carex species) and pondweeds (Potamogeton species) are distributed widely across the boreal zone of both continents because migratory waterfowl and shorebirds are effective in dispersing their seeds.

The wood is a lovely illusion of wilderness, with some fascinating detail to look for, such as carved newts and pondweeds on the pedestal in the centre of the fountains' reservoir.