e/Rheophyte

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has gloss	eng: Rheophytes are aquatic plants that live in fast moving water currents in an environment where few other organisms can survive. They tend to be found in currents that move at rates of 1 to 2 meters per second and that are up to 3 to 6 feet deep. The amount of force such fast moving currents produce and the damaging debris brought along with it makes the environment so inhospitable. Rheophytes are able to live in such environments because their leaves are streamlined so as put up little resistance to the flow of water. The leaves tend to be quite narrow and flexible as well. In order to prevent the plants from being uprooted, Rheophytes have an extremely strong wide spreading root systems.
lexicalization	eng: Rheophyte
instance of	(noun) a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, aquatic plant