An alternative or archaic name for waterweed plants, particularly members of the elodea genus.
Directly from Greek elodes (marshy, swampy), used as a botanical term before the more standardized 'elodea' became dominant in scientific nomenclature.
You'll mostly see 'elodes' in older scientific texts from the 1800s—it's a fossil word in modern botany, replaced by 'elodea,' but it helps us understand how plant naming evolved.
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